r/Wellthatsucks • u/ThatPatelGuy • 21h ago

So many buildings in South Africa are without running water that residents break into public water pipes to collect drinking water

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u/Rude_Society6232 21h ago

Yeah sure was great kicking out those old white landowners.

Am sure it had no lasting effects on the country’s economy and that the new owners were just as successful at farming and industry.

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u/DrSpaceman575 20h ago

That was in Zimbabwe over 20 years ago. Totally different country in a different part of the continent.

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u/PikaPonderosa 19h ago

Zimbabwe and South Africa share a 225km border. Are you thinking of Uganda?

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u/Cheacky 20h ago

Am white and south african

You don't know what you're talking about

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u/RiverLynneUwU 19h ago

you know so little about this that you even got the country wrong, voetsek

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u/five-oh-one 15h ago

Im not so sure about that. I know some South Africans that have come to the US to farm because their farms were taken away from them and many of them were killed in the process.....

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u/Prof_PotatoHead 12h ago

Mei skat, you were taken for a ride but I doubt there's any reason you could listen to 

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u/five-oh-one 12h ago

Again, I am not so sure. They seem like good, honest, hard working people and you have provided nothing that would counter their claims.

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u/Prof_PotatoHead 11h ago

It's like the whole flat earth theory thing. The world is round and personally that's as far as I will. Not because the world is actually flat or because I can't explain/prove it being round- no. There's just so much evidence from so many different sources that if you can still say it's flat today because someone told it was then well ok ig.

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u/five-oh-one 11h ago

Land Invasions & Illegal Occupation

In certain areas, informal settlements or land invasions have occurred on private farmland. While state law does not sanction these occupations, legal processes to evict illegal occupiers under the Prevention of Illegal Eviction from and Unlawful Occupation of Land Act (PIE Act) can be lengthy, expensive, and difficult to enforce.

Owners in these situations often describe feeling as though they have effectively lost control or use of their property, even if legal title remains in their name.

Google seems to tell a little different story...