No, it’s not apartheid or even the current riots.  It’s the government.
If you want to understand South Africa, and in much of what plagues all of Africa - read this editorial on the criminal incompetence of Thabo Mbeki, South Africa’s current president.
You’ll begin to understand why Robert Guest, the Africa editor for the Economist and […]

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The amount of white-collar crime in South Africa is surprising. The press is rife with incredible accounts of blatant, mad-dash-to-the-border embezzlement and fraud. All of it is sloppy, but the sloppiest of all wind up in prison, such as J Arthur Brown, the former CEO of Fidentia Asset Management, a formerly giant Cape […]

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If you have been following the news (or picked up Tuesday’s NY Times - see here for the front-page article - if you read anything it should be that or this or this), you’ve seen the anti-immigrant riots in the Johannesburg townships. The mass influx of Zimbabwean refugees, combined with general unrest over immigration […]

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