> Spend a day reading up on what's happening in South Africa's politics and see for yourself.

South Africa is less analogous to an internal devolution and more analogous to one country being conquered by another country.

In what possible way? To which change of power are you referring to here, I can think of at least two but neither match your description so far I understand.

I'm not GP but SA essentially has a single party that took control, with the opposition and minor parties not even able to hold a candle to the power the primary party wields. This primary party with control installed well-connected, but completely useless party members as heads of all government departments and state owned entities. And since coming into power, most of its members have stolen as much as possible.

The only way such a government could come to power and remain in power anywhere else in the world would be in a conquered state. I can see the parallels that the GP has drawn by calling SA such.