this is what happens when you:
stop educating an entire nation (Note how the older black folks who got some British schooling in the pre-Apartheid era, when we were still part of the Commonwealth, are massively more well-spoken and coherent, than the younger people who were educated under Apartheid)
This is what happens when you:
consistently give a mostly badly or almost entirely uneducated nation, the promise and hope of a better life - and then - apart from a few short years when Mandela was President - change nothing substantially in their lives.
The people in charge of SA now, whether deliberately or accidentally, have brought terror, destruction, nihilism, and disillusionment, into the political/social arena.
47 million people in SA - and only how many tax-payers? 11 million? 14 million? The majority population aren't part of anything, and due to their ignorance, will mostly never be able to be part of anything. That alone tells you that SA is dead in the water, and what we're seeing that looks like 'business as usual' - are the parasites crawling on the corpse.
The sad thing to me, is that I know that it's going to get far worse. Far more violence is approaching, more crime, more hatred, more of everything that the rest of Africa either has worked through, or is still struggling with.
SA was the most advanced and built up infrastructure on the entire African continent - the only country that was comparable to the Western model in many ways. Point being - it still has a long way to fall, to crumble and disintegrate to the point of parity with the rest of the continent.
And nothing at this point can stop the process. No whining, moaning, 'petitions', outraged newspaper columns or articles - anything that follows the Western model of global culture and protest - these will be useless. As you've already seen in a thousand ways, it doesn't matter how much you 'voice your objections' to anything. Whether its Telkom, ICASA, things the ANC intends to do..
'Voicing objections' and other non-violent models just don't work in the African model of government. They're ignored, or slowed to a crawl causing years of drawn out legal mumbo jumbo.
All that's left to folks in SA, is either to keep quiet, leave, or follow the African model, and attempt an overthrow in some way, and hope that the next people in power, will eventually allow a genuinely democratic system to finally come to SA.
Seriously though, wasn't some of the most famous criminals like ted bundy, manson etc extremely clever?
