Thanks for a great article, sometimes one wonders why people enjoy the "blinkered walk" but that's a whole different kettle of fish, We, as a "nation", are going to have a very great difference of opinion going forward as what is best for SA, most forget that Union only took place in 1910 and somehow think we have been a united nation since time immemorial. A wise alternative to a Zimbabwe style of life would probably be to call the SA experiment a day and maybe consider a loose knit canton/federation of states before things devolve completely, and make no mistake in Zim there was not the mix of tribes and nations that we have in SA. We should all tread carefully and make measured and sound decisions for all our children's sake and the sake of a really huge number of very good people only wanting to go about our daily lives in peace but we unfortunately have a few bad eggs that sully the water. Communication, hard work and respect must be our foundation as a people going forward. Austerity, a spanner to turn this ship as the rocks loom larger and larger in our path, tough times whichever way we look, but not insurmountable!.
I think the phrase "there is a lot of ruin in a country" is telling for South Africa.
Global middle class living standards existing for a sector of the population provide a resource pool that even the most rapacious thieving governing class cannot exhaust quickly, but it also bears asking how much of what is on paper for the South African State is even real, how much of the economy is underground and run by taxi mafias and private security services, etc. I think the latter forces are going to be real power sectors once the ANC is no longer capable of enforcing hegemony and patronage networks as coalition politics emerge.
In other words, I would expect South Africa to come apart not in the sense of political borders but that urban areas not controlled by the DA will further go down the path of Lagos and rural areas will range from traditional leader tinpot rule to something akin to the DRC in that there functionally is no state or services.
You left out one big saving grace for South Africa. Unlike all the other African countries, South Africa is the last outpost. The majority of people can not pack up and head south for better options, so we will stand here on the tip of Africa and make it work, without Squirrel and his cabinet of nuts.
Great articile, great insight. Thanks Rob. I think we should push harder for a free and independent Cape. That day is definitely coming, but why wait for the pawpaw to hit the fan first?
Thanks for a great article, sometimes one wonders why people enjoy the "blinkered walk" but that's a whole different kettle of fish, We, as a "nation", are going to have a very great difference of opinion going forward as what is best for SA, most forget that Union only took place in 1910 and somehow think we have been a united nation since time immemorial. A wise alternative to a Zimbabwe style of life would probably be to call the SA experiment a day and maybe consider a loose knit canton/federation of states before things devolve completely, and make no mistake in Zim there was not the mix of tribes and nations that we have in SA. We should all tread carefully and make measured and sound decisions for all our children's sake and the sake of a really huge number of very good people only wanting to go about our daily lives in peace but we unfortunately have a few bad eggs that sully the water. Communication, hard work and respect must be our foundation as a people going forward. Austerity, a spanner to turn this ship as the rocks loom larger and larger in our path, tough times whichever way we look, but not insurmountable!.
I think the phrase "there is a lot of ruin in a country" is telling for South Africa.
Global middle class living standards existing for a sector of the population provide a resource pool that even the most rapacious thieving governing class cannot exhaust quickly, but it also bears asking how much of what is on paper for the South African State is even real, how much of the economy is underground and run by taxi mafias and private security services, etc. I think the latter forces are going to be real power sectors once the ANC is no longer capable of enforcing hegemony and patronage networks as coalition politics emerge.
In other words, I would expect South Africa to come apart not in the sense of political borders but that urban areas not controlled by the DA will further go down the path of Lagos and rural areas will range from traditional leader tinpot rule to something akin to the DRC in that there functionally is no state or services.
“...and this time, we won’t be taking it lying down.”
When you say “we”, who are you referring to?
You left out one big saving grace for South Africa. Unlike all the other African countries, South Africa is the last outpost. The majority of people can not pack up and head south for better options, so we will stand here on the tip of Africa and make it work, without Squirrel and his cabinet of nuts.
Great articile, great insight. Thanks Rob. I think we should push harder for a free and independent Cape. That day is definitely coming, but why wait for the pawpaw to hit the fan first?
Good grief Robert. Ending on a positive note! Smoking too much of that good Dutch ganga?
This is going global.
This is f-ed up