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South Africa as at 2015

https://www.afronline.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/kibera-slums-21.jpg
https://media.roarmag.org/2013/11/Shantytown.jpg
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2009/06/29/world/30safrica_600.jpg

iterator24:
South Africa as at 2015

https://www.afronline.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/kibera-slums-21.jpg
https://media.roarmag.org/2013/11/Shantytown.jpg
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2009/06/29/world/30safrica_600.jpg

Picture 1 is Kibera slum in Kenya
Picture 2 is South African slum in 1950s
Picture 3 is equally picture taken in 1960s

Both Pic 1&2 are used only for historical purposes to track South Africa's rapid development in service delivery since the fall of apartheid.

Read further about the second picture

http://history105.libraries.wsu.edu/fall2014/2014/08/27/apartheid-in-south-africa/

Msauza:
Picture 1 is Kibera slum in Kenya
Picture 2 is South African slum in 1950s
Picture 3 is equally picture taken in 1960s

Both Pic 1&2 are used only for historical purposes to track South Africa's rapid development in service delivery since the fall of apartheid.

I drove pass Alexandra last week mate.. stop telling lies..
that's just one of them


is this '1950s' too?

https://assets.espn.go.com/photo/2010/0711/soc_a_alexandra_township_shacks_576.jpg

iterator24:
I drove pass Alexandra last week mate.. stop telling lies..
that's just one of them


is this '1950s' too?

https://assets.espn.go.com/photo/2010/0711/soc_a_alexandra_township_shacks_576.jpg

Alex has developed from that. However, you do remind me of that old Alex township when life was still tough for a black man.


http://mobi.iol.co.za/#!/article/south-africans-blamed-for-alex-issues-1.1162514

FighterPilot:
Alex has developed from that


http://mobi.iol.co.za/#!/article/south-africans-blamed-for-alex-issues-1.1162514

stop trying so hard dude, posting a developed section of Alexandra doesn't make 'alexandra' same can be said for makoko..

the problem with you and your compatriots in general is refusal to accept the truth... alexendra is fvcked ..deal with it..

do you want pictures of umlazi [residentials] too?

iterator24:
stop trying so hard dude, posting a developed section of Alexandra doesn't make 'alexandra' same can be said for makoko..

the problem with you and your compatriots in general is refusal to accept the truth... alexendra is fvcked ..deal with it..

do you want pictures of umlazi [residentials] too?

Wrong, that's how Alex is today as in 2015. Please stop posting that old Alexandra township that shows people who are no more.

What? Umlazi in Durban. Bring it on or should I start?

Today in South Africa most people who live on slums are foreigners. Period and that's a fact. Like it or not.

FighterPilot:
Today in South Africa most people who live on slums are foreigners. Period and that's a fact. Like it or not.

and those foreigners are always responsible for service delivery protests? you're a dimwit

FighterPilot:
Wrong, that's how Alex is today as in 2015. Please stop posting that old Alexandra township that shows people who are no more.

What? Umlazi in Durban. Bring it on or should I start?

unfortunately, it will keep going on and on, got better things to do..

iterator24:
unfortunately, it will keep going on and on, got better things to do..

Anyway, let me just give you a clip.

iterator24:
and those foreigners are always responsible for service delivery protests? you're a dimwit

I have said majority of them are living in slums.

FighterPilot:
Anyway, let me just give you a clip.

1st pic - a 3D render

2,3,4 = same place, funny thing is you're posting 'malls' ..hahaha

I knew you're going to post malls that's why I added residentials since we're talking slums..

do better mate..

FighterPilot:
I have said majority of them are living in slums.

wrong again, from all the slums I've seen plus your xenophobic attitude towards foreigners, a sane individual will ignore that foolish statement you made.. majority my butt hole..

iterator24:
South Africa as at 2015

https://www.afronline.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/kibera-slums-21.jpg
https://media.roarmag.org/2013/11/Shantytown.jpg
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2009/06/29/world/30safrica_600.jpg

Stop posting wrong pictures to mislead people. Stop posting pictures from Kenya and make them look as if they are from South Africa. Please, replace that garbage just like your fellow friend did.


http://www.africangametreksafaris.com/kenya%20pro%20slum%20tour.htm

FighterPilot:
Stop posting wrong pictures to mislead people. Stop posting pictures from Kenya and make them look as if they are from South Africa. Please, replace that garbage just like your fellow friend did.

as your compatriot pointed, only 1 pics was from Kenya, majority of pics is south Africa

oh, and I admit my error...

see ya later mate.. got little time for you slum dwellers

iterator24:
1st pic - a 3D render

2,3,4 = same place, funny thing is you're posting 'malls' ..hahaha

I knew you're going to post malls that's why I added residentials since we're talking slums..

do better mate..

3D? Since when have you seen 3D so real? You must be crazy, hehehehe.
South African townships have shopping malls. We are talking about townships not cities. Do your villages there in Nigeria have shopping malls and big hospitals?

iterator24:
see ya later mate.. got little time for you slum dwellers

Your kind are the one who live in slums in SA because you can't qualify for a free house. Nope, as for me, I live in centurion.

Lezzlie:
.....And yet giant rats have eaten your babies whole and alive in Soweto and Khayelitsha.

Nope, Zulus are at the last rung of the development ladder.

A few igbo approached our local gov and told them they will help solve the rat problem because its a national nigerian delicacy. They are now serving rat stew to there nigerian customers here daily because its the only protein igbos can afford here.

FighterPilot:
Today in South Africa most people who live on slums are foreigners. Period and that's a fact. Like it or not.

I'm happy you finally accepted. You guys like painting your country as if you don't have people suffering, you forget that there are other Africans who take note of them. Can you see the recent building behind in this pics, is that studio owned by a foreigner too.

jln115:
If you hate it so much, why do you bother posting?

Yes,you're right. Its a public forum not my forum. However there are universal rules,namely respect for human life that's been abandoned as this thread has turned into the horror show that it is. Here's a perfect example from agaugust:

All we know is that Kenyan army is useless and incompetent, that's why El Shabbab terrorists are killing 147 Kenyan students on a university campus and your useless army cannot prevent the massacre in your own backyard.....your army gets embarrassed at home by ONLY FOUR MEN with AK-47 gringrin

Next time, watch your careless tongue before you critisize Nigerian army, we have won our own war in grand style !

Do you find the obscene gleeful tone and the smilies appropriate? Seriously?

iterator24:
you don't need to add old pictures dude

makoko is being refitted too

https://insideflows.org/wp-content/uploads/NLE-architects-makoko-floating-school-designboom-b.jpg

I still pass through your slums when I go out.. RDP my butt hole..

Shall I bombard you with Alexandra pictures amongst others

Makoko is going nowhere. At least you could have shown me a building wih bricks and not wood.

iblawi:
I'm happy you finally accepted. You guys like painting your country as if you don't have people suffering, you forget that there are other Africans who take note of them. Can you see the recent building behind in this pics, is that studio owned by a foreigner too.

Still that pic is supposed to have been down by now. Remember the rapid RDP programmes which will still have to build billions of free houses.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_and_Development_Programme

FighterPilot:
Still that pic is supposed to have been down by now. Remember the rapid RDP programmes which will still have to build billions of free houses.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_and_Development_Programme

You haven't built millions not to talk of billions of free houses. That is the very reason why your people will never work when they believe everything must be free to them.

Do you know how much your country is owing today? And your economy is not growing as expected. Where do you think you are heading.

iblawi:
You haven't built millions not to talk of billions of free houses. That is the very reason why your people will never work when they believe everything must be free to them.

Do you know how much your country is owing today? And your economy is not growing as expected. Where do you think you are heading.

You must do research before even think of typing a single word. The national government has.already built 3 million houses. The counting still continues eveyday until Jesus comes.

http://mg.co.za/article/2015-06-08-govt-seeks-to-discipline-those-selling-rdp-houses


Gauteng alone built over million free houses.

http://sanews.gov.za/south-africa/over-million-houses-built-gauteng

MEDUPI POWER STATION TO PRODUCE A TOTAL OUTPUT OF POWER ALMOST THE ENTIRE NIGERIAN ELECTRICITY OUTPUT

Medupi has achieved a significant stage in its construction by the synchronisation of its 1st unit (Unit 6) on 2 March 2015 to the National grid.

Within the next three to six months, South Africa will see Medupi unit 6’s full potential of 794MW being fed into the South African national grid.

While Unit 6 is the first of Medupi’s six units, it should be noted that all required auxiliary services for the entire power station are ready to ensure that Medupi’s total output of 4 764MW is fully synchronised to the South African power grid upon completion and full comissioning.

http://www.eskom.co.za/Whatweredoing/NewBuild/MedupiPowerStation/Pages/Medupi_Power_Station_Project.aspx

SANDF PRODUCTS INDIGENOUS WEAPONS NOT FOREIGN

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DictatorZAR:
Answer my questions or shut da f@uck up.

Supply independently wow so who is in charge of shiiit collection since you do this without governmental service providers.

For every 1 SA citizen without basic amenities there are X10 more sufferers in Nigeria fact.

Leave thıs Lezz character alone he ıs fueled ny jealousy nothıng else

Residents of a section of Majidun, along the Ikorodu Road, Lagos have raised the alarm, alleging that Naval personnel have taken over their community and enforcing the law as if the community is in a state of emergency.

Residents told our correspondents that the naval personnel (stationed there to prevent the activities of oil thieves) ejected residents from a street and took over their houses.

When our correspondents visited the area last Wednesday, Chief Owoyele Street close to the creek running through the community, was barricaded with a metal bar, which our correspondents learnt was installed by the naval personnel, keeping residents away from their homes since November 2014. The street taken over by the naval personnel is estimated to have nothing less than 70 houses. Our correspondents saw an armoured tank stationed at the entrance of the street.

Meanwhile, the residents alleged that some young women – married and unmarried – have been raped by the naval personnel, who also allegedly tortured residents at will.

In order to verify the rape claim, our correspondents were taken to the home of 48-year-old Obioma Okampu, an Ebonyi State indigene. A large obituary posted on the wall showed that Okampu died on August 10, 2015.

A resident, who pleaded anonymity, told Saturday PUNCH that one of the naval personnel was raping Okampu’s wife on August 10, 2015, when the deceased was attracted by his wife’s screams.

“He saw what was happening to his wife but immediately the naval personnel saw him, they tried to catch him and he ran. As he tried to cross the BRT lane on Ikorodu Road while running away, he was hit by a coming rapid transit bus and he died on the spot,” the source said.

It was learnt that Naval authorities paid for his corpse to be taken for burial in Ebonyi State.

Okampu’s one room apartment was under lock and key when our correspondent visited the house.

How I escaped death – Resident shot by naval rating

On August 24, a drunken naval rating reportedly shot three residents of the community as part of his ‘birthday celebration’. Two of the victims have been discharged from the Lagos University Teaching Hospital where they were taken to for treatment by the navy personnel. Doctors say the third victim, 48-year-old tipper driver and father of five, Olanrewaju Agbonoja, may never be able to use his right hand again as a result of the gunshot injury he sustained there.

Speaking to our correspondent about the incident, Agbonoja said he cried when he was told he might not be able to use his hand again.

“These hands bring food to my family’s table. These are what I use to send my children to school. These are what I use to feed my family,” he said.

Agbonoja, an Ondo State indigene, explained that he was merely standing in the front of his vehicle in the tipper park at Majidun, when the unidentified naval rating came in to challenge him.

He said, “That was not the first time other naval personnel would see us at the tipper garage. They even come around sometimes to chat with us. I have not seen him among the naval personnel stationed there before.

“He asked me what I was doing there and I was confused on why he was asking me that. Everybody knew the place as a tipper garage. I told him that I was a tipper driver. Before I knew what was happening, he had raised his gun and shot me in the hand. I fell down screaming. I did not know what I did wrong. That same day, I heard he shot two other people in other parts of Majidun.

“His colleagues later rushed us to the Ikorodu General Hospital. They did not allow our family members to see us or even come near us at the hospital. Later, we were transferred to LUTH. Navy is the one paying for our feeding and treatment currently. Please, the people have to know what we are going through. I did nothing wrong. I was merely going about my normal job. Now I would never be able to do that anymore.”

Agbonoja said his father’s house in Majidun is one of the houses taken over by the naval personnel.

His young pregnant wife, Deborah, was close to tears when she spoke with our correspondent. According to her, their family would suffer if her husband is not able to work.

The then Information Officer of the Western Naval Command, Lt. Commander Abdulsalam Sani (who has since been transferred), had said that the naval rating involved in the shooting of residents of Majidun would be disciplined at the end of an investigation into the incident.

My granddaughter escaped being raped by naval rating – Residents

A resident of the community, Mrs. Taiwo Azeez, narrated how her granddaughter was almost raped by one of the naval ratings in the community.

She told Saturday PUNCH that on the day the naval rating shot some residents, her son, a bus driver, was with his 15-year-old daughter to buy an electric bulb in the night when they were sighted by a naval rating.

She said, “The Naval man called him and asked him where they were going. He also asked who the girl was and my son said she was his daughter. He told my son to lie inside a gutter filled with dirty water and start rolling in it.

“While my son was doing that, the naval man dragged my granddaughter to one of the houses that they had taken over. As soon as my son realised that the Naval man was out of sight, he stood up and ran here to call me. We went back there in search of the girl but we did not see her.

“We immediately went to report the case to the police. Later, someone informed us that the girl had been found. My granddaughter said the man was about To Molest her when one of his colleagues saw him. The colleague was the one who rescued my daughter and took her out of the house. The police simply told us to forget the matter because there was nothing we could do against the military men,” she said.

‘Naval personnel force residents to drink gutter water as punishment’

More details emerged on the kind of treatment residents of Majidun suffer in the hands of naval personnel stationed in the area as our correspondents went around the community.

Chairman of the Community, Rev. Oloyede Egbodofo, explained that the naval personnel in the community are notorious for punishing residents of the community by forcing them to drink water from the gutter.

He said, “You will notice that the street has been locked up by the military men. Anytime they catch a resident walking around the street, they either ask you to lie inside a filled up gutter and roll in it or they would order you to drink water from the gutter.

“How long will naval personnel continue to occupy our homes? No government official has given any explanation on why we should be going through since almost a year ago that they moved here. The way we are treated here, it is as if we are in a state of emergency. They do whatever they like with our women and beat our men.

“There is no pipeline installation in this community. The only reason they are here is that some of the pipeline vandals and oil thieves use the river here as a transit point. Is that a reason why scores of people should be chased away from their homes?”

A resident, Mr. Omoyele Olusola, lamented that many residents, who were ejected from their homes, now take shelter in churches around the community, Saturday PUNCH learnt.

“Government should urgently come to our rescue and recover our houses from these men. It is sad that we are going through this when we are not under a state of emergency,” he said.

When our correspondent contacted the assistant spokesperson of the command, Titilayo George, to speak on the different allegations lodged by the residents, she said she would call back. When she was contacted again the following day, she said she was in a meeting and had not called back as of the time of filing this report

http://www.punchng.com/feature/super-saturday-crime/naval-officers-terrorise-lagos-community-%e2%80%a2rape-women-beat-men-take-over-homes/

Picture 1: the neighborhood
Picture 2: some resident
Picture 3: obituary of a resident (Mr Okapmu)

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