[Gay State Conservative]

I have some familiarity with South Africa thanks to having once dated a South African woman and having visited a couple of times (1980s and 2018). Of course apartheid was very bad but majority rule has been in place for 30+ years.

The differences I saw between my recent visit and my visit 40 years ago was breathtaking...absolutely incredible. majority rule has caused a fully developed nation to collapse into a typical African country (I've seen several "typical" African countries as well as SA).

[MinorityRepublican]

Of course apartheid was very bad but majority rule has been in place for 30+ years.

The problem was that they didn't transition to majority rule after apartheid. They should have split up the country into something like Capetown, Durban, Pretoria/Johannesburg.

[DIRTYSECRET]

What would you expect? Where’s Yogi on all this?

[dfwgator]

SA has big time problems with illegals. The blacks there don’t want to share what the white people built in SA with their fellow Africans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-x1NLMVSIw

[ek_hornbeck]

Of course apartheid was very bad

By your own admission, it was far better than the current alternative. I don't judge good or bad based on an imaged alternative of some idealized world, I base it on real choices that are on the table - i.e. Apartheid vs. Xhosa tribal rule. By that standard, Apartheid rule was a net good.

[Honorary Serb]

A typical African country?

Like “Zimbabwe” (the former Rhodesia)?