Good for the US for pointing out what most on forum tend to know already.
(Unless you DON'T live behind fortified barricades, can sleep with your windows open, and doors unlocked, and feel secure about letting your
children or partners stroll around anywhere, at any time of the day or night).
look bear in mind the US pretty much, despite paying lip service to sanctions against SA during apartheid, carried on more or less doing business here..
SA hasn't experienced the full force of a genuine all purpose sanctions..
Its gonna be interesting to see if the ANC can resist the temptation to
whine like bitches in response - or do the right thing and admit that
things are insane, disgusting and unacceptable in SA, due to a large
degree, to their inability to govern.
Personally, it might be very funny, if the ANC tries to get verbally
aggressive or hostile with the US at this point in time - as all manner
of possibilities emerge.
The last time big business saw its profit-taking becoming radically interfered
with, (mid Eighties) business leaders connected with the ANC in Lusaka, and in effect, offered them this country - as long as they wouldn't have their
firms privatized in the takeover.
The ANC never 'won' the liberation war, they were 'given' the victory.
They had the moral right, and the PR on their side - and eventually the
negative PR reports (ie 'violence') - began getting in the way of the expansion of various SA businesses into overseas markets..
The cost of maintaining Apartheid, was around 56 BILLION rand a year.
Something that the SA Gov and Big Business then, was quite happy to pay
for, and still make profit.
But various companies wanted to move into global markets, and the negative
spin on the one hand, and the possible total privatization of their companies,
should the ANC somehow through a miracle of cosmic proportions, manage to
militarily beat the SADF.. they could lose it all..
Hence the big deal struck..
And hello the new Government, who suddenly became exactly like the old
government, but in reverse - and business could carry on as usual..
Based on what's unfolding in SA now, the ANC clearly believes its own rewritten history.
Namely that they somehow, all by themselves, achieved power and 'one man one vote'.
Should the ANC be so dumb as to think they are 'really' in charge of SA,
watch what happens, if they say and do things, which affect the profits
of Big Business..or negatively affect the profits of some of the large
Corporations now trading in global markets, without the 'icky' stain of being
connected to Apartheid.
can be your friend too 
