A focus on race-relations, in 2023, obscures the real issues plaguing South Africa, which, although in large part a legacy of apartheid don't have to do with black-white relations.
> A focus on race-relations, in 2023, obscures the real issues plaguing South Africa, which, although in large part a legacy of apartheid, don't have to do with black-white relations.
What are the real issues?
And what are all of those caused by?
In my opinion, it's all come about because the blacks and now saying "Screw you" and "You did it to us, so we'll do it to you"...
The country is not working together.
And this is the result.
It may possibly have been a thing 20 years ago, but nowadays, I doubt anyone relishes the breakdown in services as "sticking it to the man".
I spent a few months in South Africa, and I felt less safe there than any other country on the continent. It is extremely edgy.
I genuinely believe the magic of Mandela was stopping the (immense) majority of blacks from slaughtering the (extremely small) minority of whites for what they did. I had tears streaming down my face for hours in the Apartheid museum in Jburg.
With Mandela long gone, many of the problems I saw in South Africa, I think, are the result. "It's time we got you back", etc.
It pains me to say it, but I'll be shocked it the country doesn't tear itself apart in the coming decades.
Countries like Botswana feel like the polar opposite, where blacks and whites have always lived together peacefully, and work together to make the country better for everyone.
For context, I'm white.