The massive influx of northern Africans is totally changing the character and landscape here. Huge shanty towns have grown up on the edges of all the large cities and living conditions are appalling . Classes have up to 75 kids and clearly many of them don’t go to school at all. The crime rate is soaring, there are many no-go parts of towns and cities. Those who have property have it locked, barred, barb wired, armed patrolled, guard dogs.
Close to people living in total squalor are shiny new glass and steel malls with all the latest stores and limitless spending. Massive wealth has accumulated historically from the proliferation of mines and resources here, but the infrastructure is badly deteriorating.
Power cuts and outages is clear proof of the failure of government to manage their energy requirements. Now the prospect is for at least 5 years of privation, random and planned cuts any time of day, every day, which makes it impossible for business and the general populace to plan anything that requires energy! Imagine your fridge, freezer, washer, drier not able to function for 12 hours a day but different hours every day!
