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South Africa’s Slow, Inevitable March Towards Collapse
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Almost all poor countries are plagued by graft at a level that would unthinkable in a modern industrialized country. As a general rule, this graft is a significant or even dominant factor in why the countries remain poor.
Very beautiful country and people. It is pity that they could not manage keep good things in and bad things out.
When I went to SA few years ago I was both impressed and saddened. I was impressed by how friendly the climate is in the southern part of the country. It felt *perfect*. But saddened by how the country was clearly collapsing. The best comparison I could make is that SA looks like Australia after an apocalypse. Tons of infrastructure just wasting away, abandoned. City centres with roaming bands of homeless people/addicts, an Uber driver in Durban even refused to take me downtown, told me “you gonna be robbed in seconds”. ANC has destroyed the country, a delayed Zimbabwe effect is in progress
Yeah, this is pretty accurate in a nutshell.
I lived in Colombia for 14 years, and looking at this video I thought it was the same situation: a country with a lot of natural resources, an high degree of corruption and wealth concentration. Even the energy shortage are quite similar. I think this kind of general picture is quite common in a lot of developping countries…