What's that smell?
South Africa's governing African National Congress Party lost control the country's economic hub of Johannesburg for the first time since the fall of apartheid 20 years ago.
The followers of Mandela never were very clever, but you'd think the rampant crime, endemic unemployment and constantly rising level of squalor would have tipped them off before two decades had passed. Not that it will make a difference. It doesn't matter who ends up in charge; the results will always be despotism and destitution.
Apartheid was created for a very good reason. Since it was lifted, South Africa has been in a cultural and economic death spiral, plummeting down the list from one of the wealthiest and cleanest countries in the world to... well, worse than Brazil. I suspect the country will reach crush depth pretty soon, at which point it will revert to its pre-colonial status as a primitive hell hole which no one who bathes regularly will ever want to visit.
The followers of Mandela never were very clever, but you'd think the rampant crime, endemic unemployment and constantly rising level of squalor would have tipped them off before two decades had passed. Not that it will make a difference. It doesn't matter who ends up in charge; the results will always be despotism and destitution.
Apartheid was created for a very good reason. Since it was lifted, South Africa has been in a cultural and economic death spiral, plummeting down the list from one of the wealthiest and cleanest countries in the world to... well, worse than Brazil. I suspect the country will reach crush depth pretty soon, at which point it will revert to its pre-colonial status as a primitive hell hole which no one who bathes regularly will ever want to visit.
posted by Jar(egg)head at 08:43
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Nelson Mandela (Democratic Socialist) was imprisoned for sabatoge and attempting to overthrow the government. Once he became President, he instituted the democratic socialist programs that created the South Africa you see today.
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