South Africa: On its way to Venezuela?

There seems to be a blackout on media coverage of major issues happening in KwaZulu-Natal, South African. It makes sense that the government owned and managed South African Broadcasting Authority (SABC) is quiet, but the competition Media24 also have very little to no coverage of events currently happening running up to the election it seems. There has been ongoing protests in this area, which has led to some deaths which has received minimal news coverage, but there seems to be a new problem which isn’t reported on. Strikes by government workers in the South African waterworks department, has caused some areas in Durban to have no water. This comes just short of an international tourist summit held annually in Durban to promote this as a premier holiday destination. The reason given is that workers are unhappy with salary increases given to MK veterans. Now to understand this better, MK was the armed wing of the ANC that caused many deaths for both blacks and whites in the apartheid era. Some say they are linked to the brutal farm murders happening in South Africa currently, due to the similarities between the methods and brutality used then ( in the apartheid era or as the media refers to as the armed struggle ) in which white farmers are tortured before they are killed. Reports say the salary change comes after threats of violence by the MK veterans against the government. We do know that the whole of South Africa has been plagued by black outs of power and water supply issues caused by poor maintenance and management of SOE’s. The question is whether the water problem is really caused by the workers or if this is just another issue caused by a failing socialist government. There is no shortage of water in this area, it’s the mechanisms used to get waters to homes that aren’t working. This issue is being experience in the wealthier areas where a lot of the tourism industry resides. Guest houses seems to be most affected in the tourism industry, not taking into account residence of the area’s. This comes after violent protest against service delivery by the municipalities and government. Ironically the areas plagued by this violence don’t seem to be affected by the water issues. It sounds like a conspiracy but more and more service delivery issues are being experienced in the middle to rich areas and an exclusion of areas with known violent protests. The up and coming May 2019 election could also be a factor since the ANC has been losing support against the EFF amongst the black communities. The IFP which is the party of the Zulu people and has Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi as their MP has been very out spoken against the ANC government as well. The Zulu kingdom is in Kwazulu-Natal and there is well known and documented friction between the Zulu and Xhosa people. The ANC has always been a majority Xhosa party, but the support of the Zulu Royal family is critical for the ANC to have stability in the country. There has been a slow increase in clashes between supporters of these parties. Executions of political party members has been rampant in this area. Only 5 days to the election is a critical time for drawing votes. Looking at Venezuela and what preceded the current crisis, South Africa seems to be going the same route, only slower.