THE SOUTH AFRICAN CITY OF CAPE TOWN is about to run out of potable water.1
Israel, which knows a little about water having turned sand into farm land, offered to help Cape Town slake its thirst.
The South African government rejected Israel’s offer.
Apparently it would rather have Cape Towners die of thirst than deal with Israel.
The South African government may be anti-Israel – and simultaneously pro-”Palestinian” – because at one time, Israel provided military gear to the government at the time. (I recall documenting an Israeli-made communications system sold to South Africa in the mid-1970s when I lived and worked in Israel. When you are a small country such as Israel, you are forced to sell to anyone who will buy.)
No matter WHAT the reason, the government is potentially murdering-by-thirst a few million people. Cape Town had a population of 3,776,000 in 2018.2
Despite the fact that Cape Town is located on the Atlantic coast – no shortage of water there, albeit it is not drinkable “as is” – the area is expected to run dry in
According to World Population Review, the ethnic and racial composition of Cape Town is:
- 42.4% "Coloured"
- 38.6% "Black African"
- 15.7% "White"
- 1.4% "Asian or Indian" 1.9% other
With nearly 84 percent of the population non-white, South Africa’s black African National Congress (ANC) government surely is not trying to punish the entire area’s population by rejecting Israeli assistance. But maybe . . .
According to USA Today, in an article dated 7 March 2018,3, Cape Town might run out of potable water “as early as next month.”
Yet the South African government – due to pride or due to revenge – continues to reject Israel’s offer to avert death of South Africans from dehydration.
A search of the web failed to identify any other country or agency (e.g., a UN effort) that has offered help to Cape Town.
The Guardian4 reports that
- In Australia, the millennium drought, which parched the country for the first decade of the new century, left cities such as Melbourne a year away from running out of water.
This experience has put the country, and institutions like the University of Melbourne, at the forefront of cross-disciplinary research into water security.
Still, Australia seems not to have volunteered its expertise to aid Cape Town. Only Israel stepped up.
Cape Town is not, according to Aljazeera5 the only place to suffer the drought; the whole country is in a drought.
- South Africa has been experiencing the worst drought in 100 years. Since the 1990s, the country has lost a third of its farms due to water scarcity. As a result, farmers have had to turn to a hi-tech solution to help cope with dwindling water supplies and harsher environments
The drought, if Aljazeera’s article is accurate, is nothing new for South Africa; it started more than three decades ago (the 1990s).
In all this time the ANC – South Africa’s government – has failed to find ways to either combat or at least mitigate the drought. Cape Town, on the ocean is about to go dry. Consider the country’s interior, communities distant from an ocean water source.
Yet the ANC rejects Israel’s offer of assistance.
Was Solomon right again? Does South Africa’s “pride go before its destruction?” (Proverbs 16:18)
Sources
1. https://www.facebook.com/theisraelproject/videos/10157037905277316/
2. http://worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/cape-town-population/
3. http://tinyurl.com/yb9sefwa
4. http://tinyurl.com/yce57wju
5. http://tinyurl.com/y8uo4xlw
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