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Well, SA has higher rates of obesity and diabetes than other sub-Saharan countries, too, but lower than the US:

Also higher median age, but much lower than the US:

Higher cumulative death rate than most of Africa, but much lower than US:

So, SA is a bit less like the rest of sub-Saharan Africa, and a wee bit more like the US. It's more developed than the rest of sub-Saharan Africa, but less developed than the US.

This article is mostly just a rehash of that article that was repeatedly posted here on FR last year. The headline is clickbaitish. "Experts" were and are not "mystified" or "confused". They find it interesting and are curious about it, and have offered various plausible theories.

And the article makes a wrong assumption here: "I have yet to see an establishment source mention the high rate of use of Ivermectin in Africa to fight parasites as a possible source of protection against Covid infection or severity."

As I have proven, there is not a "high rate of use of ivermectin in Africa". In those areas where it is used to combat river blindness and/or elephantiasis, it is taken once, sometimes twice per year, and then only a single dose, sometimes a five-day course for river blindness. There is no correlation between the areas where ivermectin is taken and Covid deaths or severity at all. When used for roundworms, it's a single dose one-and-done deal.

I know many here on FR really believe in ivermectin, but one has to look elsewhere for proof it actually works. Africa ain't it.

--- "I know many here on FR really believe in ivermectin, but one has to look elsewhere for proof it actually works."

I have seen all these graphs and graphics so you're preaching to the choir. I made no argument for a drug. I am uninterested in the various drugs per se, and in my part in our exchange have merely noted that the actual mortality rates are what they are. Subsaharan Africa's is less than South Africa's, which is significantly lower than the United States. So the Covid policies and recommendations of the US players have a factor -- I suspect a large factor -- in the US doing so poorly compared to so many "poor" nations.

Citing rates of diabetes and obesity within the overall frame of SARS CoV2 seems not enough to consider this all a true pandemic -- with a worldwide mortality rate of 0.0836 percent mortality rate over almost three years -- which declares that Covid has been in these same last 35 months 99.916 percent survivable. Such hysteria as has been generated and the economic destruction wrought by Covid lockdowns -- not lockdowns over obesity or diabetes -- are a scandal. Probably as time goes by a crime of racketeering worldwide.