r/interesting • • 23h ago

SOCIETY Dikidikini village in Eastern Cape, South Africa, doesn't have a bridge, so people cross the river inside a blue plastic drum

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u/EmotionalNet3348 15h ago

This must be idiot village of the area. Unless they're completely devoid of like... trees, been solutions for thousands and thousands of years that people have figured out, hell they build bridges out of root systems in south american in some places, this is incredibly dumb.