botanical (u/botanical)

botanical commented on South Africa's one million invisible children without birth certificates france24.com/en/africa/20... · Posted by u/mooreds

badc0ffee · 2 months ago

One thing that comes to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_energy_crisis

botanical · 2 months ago

Load shedding hasn't been a problem for a while now. With proper maintenance of the coal stations and investments in solar, we haven't had it in Winter either. But you're right, it's always lurking. With increased renewable energy, and less reliance on coal, hopefully it stays in the past.

https://african.business/2025/10/energy-resources/has-south-...

botanical commented on South Africa's one million invisible children without birth certificates france24.com/en/africa/20... · Posted by u/mooreds

SideburnsOfDoom · 2 months ago

"SA" is ambiguous. People do use to to refer to "South Australia" (the state) or also "Saudi Arabia" ISO 3166-2 country code.

ZA is not ambiguous, it has that going for it.

botanical · 2 months ago

True, but I meant in South Africa, SA is the most used. Less so with RSA or ZAR. ZA is somewhat used but SA (I would say) dominates in conversation and in written text.

botanical commented on South Africa's one million invisible children without birth certificates france24.com/en/africa/20... · Posted by u/mooreds

stroebs · 2 months ago

My father (born in ZA) had to re-register his birth at 65 when emigrating to the UK on a visa. The ZA government had no record of his birth, despite him having a drivers license, passport, tax returns for 40+ years…

This is the least bit surprising coming from a country that is in steady decline.

botanical · 2 months ago

By what metric is it in "steady decline"? As as South African, it's amusing to see how my country is generalised.

botanical commented on South Africa's one million invisible children without birth certificates france24.com/en/africa/20... · Posted by u/mooreds

returningfory2 · 2 months ago

What is ZA? Zambia?

botanical · 2 months ago

ISO 3166-2 code for South Africa. It's from Dutch: Zuid-Afrika. It's used quite often to refer to South Africa; RSA or SA is also used.

botanical commented on Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its tech in mass surveillance of Palestinians theguardian.com/world/202... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew

botanical · 3 months ago

Are they going to rehire the employees they fired for being against this and Microsoft's support of the genocide now? It's more than just mass surveillance, and their leaders need to be held accountable.

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/microsoft-azure-israel-top-cu...

botanical commented on Uruguay ditched fossil fuels for renewables washingtonpost.com/climat... · Posted by u/pcl

botanical · 3 months ago

That's really commendable, but I wonder how to do it on a large scale. Uruguay's installed capacity is 4.6 GW. On a larger scale, batteries can't be the answer as their energy density is quite poor.

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