Prosperous for certain South Africans, anyway.
who developed nuclear power,
America developed nuclear power. South Africa purchased the technology. They did not develop it.
they put a black man in as president for political correctness
No one "put him in" - they held an election.
He in turn changed the nation into a turd world nation
South Africa was always a "Third World nation" - like most Third World nations, its ruling class lived in First World luxury while the vast majority of its population languished.
That was the case before Mandela was elected and it is the case now.
with an ongoing racial war
Was there racial peace in South Africa before Mandela was elected? Everyone was happy and there was no interracial violence?
a bankrupt economy
Actually SA's debt is 36% of its GDP.
and shut down the manufacturing base
SA's manufacturing base is intact and actually grew by 5% in 2010, the last year of data I have available. Manufacturing was never the leading portion of SA's economy, which has always been dominated by agriculture and mining.
while causing food shortages.
Which food shortages were these exactly? Are food shortages endemic to SA? How many South Africans die of starvation each year?
While the rates are appallingly high, even POWA (a feminist organization in SA), says that the number is 40%, not above 50%.
No one is ever safe. But South Africans are less safe than people in most nations.
So, you are seriously trying to compare the Black run, tribal thugocracy to the old South Africa?! Wow, Apartheid is so nasty, that you had trouble getting a job if you were black and like to chop off limbs with machete’s.
Now there are plenty of jobs for hackers.
An election force on the nation by the Nanny State political Correctness league. Lets cut to the chase cause I am not going to try and play moral equivalence to someone with their fingers in their ears yelling nener nener such as you.
South Africa once was a strict moral country, that was very wealthy and productive compared to its neighbors, now it is virtualy destroyed. Nobody is wealthy except the politicians because they are thieves and killers.
Face it or not, play games with words all you want, but in the old South Africa you could go to a bar at night or a movie and not have to be worried about if you would make it home in once piece or not. Now you take your life in your hands if you go out after sundown.
One thing was proven by the trade sanctions and political correctness games played on South Africa. Apartheid was right. The living hell the nation has degenerated into is EXACTLY what Apartheid was holding back.
When the white south africans came and cleared the farm land the blacks were already farming along the river valleys, the traditional way by carrying the water to their crops in jars on their heads. So the land they cleared was the brush land, one gnarly rooted tree at a time. They put in modern drip irrigation systems and hired blacks as laborers. The productivity per acre was many times more than the traditional farms. But when the land was taken from the whites and given out to the black farmers they stripped out the irrigation systems and tried to water the old way. But the farms are too far from the water. And the guy with the parcel with the irrigation wells does not want to maintain or pay to pump all the water for his new dozens of neighbors.
The short of it is from a massive export to imports with little industry still operating, South Africa is a microcosm of what America is going through in the hands of the Communists.
My point, the main one, that you missed.