No, the freeway fence is not meant to “hide poverty”. It’s purpose is to prevent low IQ voters from throwing bricks at your car in an effort to disable it so they can proceed to rob you. Maybe these twits think that if tourists no longer come to Capetown they can all get rich selling drugs to each other.
Mayor of the City of Cape Town Geordin Hill-Lewis recently announced plans to spend R114 million to build a wall along the city’s notorious N2 highway, a move that has divided experts and political parties.
GOOD Cape Town Councillor Siyabulela Mamkeli said that this is a “physical barrier intended to hide poverty from tourists travelling between the Cape Town CBD and Cape Town International Airport.”
South Africa, where every government job is a DEI hire. They would electrify the fence but… you know. I bet the tourist industry is just booming in South Africa.
This being South Africa, Dennis, you’re allowed to call them blacks.
Actually, better you call them kaffirs, which is what long-suffering White South Africans call the people who’ve spent the last 30 years using them as cash machines and scapegoats for all the problems of the New South Africa.
The so-called GOOD party is the political cult of personality of Patricia de Lille, a former trade union leader and disgraced former mayor of Cape Town notorious for her corruption.
In reality, GOOD is a satellite party of the South African Communist Party (the controlling faction of the ANC) and never opposes the communists on any issue. Patricia’s the party’s only member in the National Assembly.
The ease by which kaffirs can expropriate Whites (tourists or locals) who are only trying to get from the airport to Cape Town isn’t a bug in the design of the airport highway as far as the SACP are concerned. It’s a feature.
But of course, when ANC men sing “Kill the Boer,” it’s just for old times’ sake, and the US should tell White South Africans seeking asylum from persecution in their native country to get in line behind the Somalis.
(Patricia serves as Cyril Ramaphosa’s Minister of Tourism. How allowing tourists to be robbed in broad daylight is supposed to promote tourism in the New South Africa only Patricia knows.)
Until I got read Capetown I thought they were talking about Los Angeles.
In Edmonton they say they build freeway fences to hide traffic noise. So the truth is they are trying to hide the middle class from tourists.
Where’s Pete Buttigieg when Cape Town needs a bottom?
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/apr/15/pete-buttigieg/pete-buttigieg-right-racism-shaped-some-urban-high/
Put posters of poor neighborhoods on the wall. That will satisfy both parties.
Might be better to bury it, then you don’t have to worry about any of that, since building a wall on one side just gives the thieves another place to throw bricks from.
When all my cattle lost their skins, I was left in “hide poverty”.