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Power cuts of as many as 12 hours a day have driven schools, hospitals and businesses to generators. Water in some communities is unsafe to drink. A dilapidated sanitation system triggered a recent cholera outbreak near the capital, Pretoria. Outside of some national highways, paved streets have more potholes than road.
On a recent sunny afternoon, Joshua Radebe patted down asphalt into a neatly filled pothole on a busy Johannesburg street as a motorist tooted and waved to him. Radebe works
(Bloomberg) -- On a recent sunny afternoon, Joshua Radebe patted down asphalt into a neatly filled pothole on a busy Johannesburg street as a motorist tooted and waved to him. Radebe works not for the government but for insurance company Discovery Ltd.’s “Pothole Patrol.” Most Read from BloombergApple Tests ‘Apple GPT,’ Develops Generative AI Tools to Catch OpenAIWhat a UPS Strike Would Mean For Consumers, Businesses and the EconomyNadella’s Microsoft Payouts Top $1 Billion on 1,000% Stock BoomS
Business is no longer willing to quietly work in the background and let the government take credit for the improvements it brings.
Were it not for the SA's continuously abused private sector, the ANC government would have driven the nation into the ground long ago.