You are welcome to join us for @Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town Jan 30 -31 2026

If someone can pay my expenses like last time I'd be glad to attend again and give a talk and/or panel.

South Africa is legendary! All the above is 100% spot on but we manage to make it work.. solar and borehole water are the way and private security.. if you have BTC you live like an absolute king here… Food is the best in the world..

In every country they have other things to fuck up the lives of the people. This is indeed totally not necessary. Like the highering of the costs in other countries as well, under the guise of the "war" for big corporations like Shell making record profits.

There are plenty of black South Africans who bemoan the current government. It might be more accurate to call out the "mismanagement of the radically corrupt socialist sponsored government".

Yup. I stayed with a friend for a few days in a suburb nearish Johannesburg. His entire neighborhood was pretty much all off grid. We only noticed the (daily) power outages by the street lights going out.

When you see the world IQ map by country it is no wonder why the black government there cannot maintain the power grid

World Population Review

Average IQ by Country 2026

Hong Kong (107.73), South Korea (106.97), and China (106.48) report the highest average IQ scores in 2026.

in fact its a mirical it is even on at all. The fictional characters Forest Gump had a higher IQ at 75 than the south African average at 68

In reality, it's not just ukraine who is responsible for their grid surviving. They had masive aid from EU and probably also USA. Also ukraine has more nuclear power which is stable source and lot of energy is from EU while South africa is net exporter.

Yo, Peter, small correction, the government is not entirely "black-led"... The ANC lost it's outright majority in 2024 (first time this has happened since 1994) and it is now in a coalition government with the DA, which has been it's primary opposition for more than two decades. The DA voter base, is about 30% white, 30% coloured (mixed race) and 30% black. It's leader (John Steenhuisen) is white, and it's previous leader, Mmusi Maimane, was black. The DA holds a number of significant positions in the coalition government, for the first time ever. The ANC still behaves as if it has that outright 60%+ majority it enjoyed in the late 1990's and early 2000's, which allowed it to do whatever it wanted, and the president signing the expropriation act without consulting it's coalition partners is evidence of that, but the reality is that they no longer have that majority, they barely crossed 40% in 2024, and they're likely never getting it back. Furthermore, somewhat miraculously, only a relatively small part of the population have thus far voted for radical extreme left/communist populism, the type of which would see apartheid being reversed. The EFF have contested 3 elections and never won more than ~10% of the vote, with the numbers slightly declining in 2024. From the outside, yes, judging by the behaviour of political leaders, we're probably screwed. But, digging deeper, the government is no longer single minded in its approach, as was the case up until 2024.

Have all the resources we need but ruling party are living in the past rather than building our future.

Thanks for the update! I didn't realize they'd lost in 2024; as I said, the last time I was there. Hopefully things change for the better.