Interesting article. I think we in the US are headed towards a similar situation - government by a “Big Man,” collapsing infrastructure (watch for the Feds to start rationing electricity on “environmental” grounds), and an economic system that can only be described as a kleptocracy (state -controlled, as are all good kleptocracies).
Hitchens is absolutely right about the tolerance of Mandela’s political defects as having led directly to this situation in SA. The tolerance of the political excesses of the soft left always results in the consolidation and sudden emergence of the hard left.
I had the occasion to work in Peru, during the radical days of the ‘80s....a favorite practice of government was to turn the power off to certain locations, in order to create anxiety.....
The fact that many white entrepreneurs have been driven out of S.Africa, the fact that what was once the most anti-radical communist socialist is now just another dictatorship with anti-capitalist leaders, is very troubling for the stability of the southern half of Africa. Years ago Castro finagled in Angola and Mozambique, now with this Zuma in charge, you can be sure more dictators will be seen in the halls of govt. there.