AND MUST LIKELY CALL THE IMF FOR HELP
Published on Linkedin on December 18, 2017
Nelson Mandela’s once popular new democratic nation, South Africa, has been brought
to its knees within twenty-three years of obtaining political freedom. Through crime,
kleptocracy, corruption and incompetence the African National Congress, the
organization that liberated South Africa from Apartheid, has proven incapable of
running the country. As with most of the de-colonized African countries, South Africa
has been incapable of warding off tribalism, kleptocracy and big man syndrome in
favour of democracy. The Communist inspired development economics, which
focused on State Owned Enterprises, has sunk the country and will have to be re-
evaluated and reconsidered.
Elections in 2019 will be akin to shifting the chairs around on the Titanic.
Danny Bradlow SARCHI Professor of International Development Law and African
Economic Relations, University of Pretoria and best-selling author, political scientist and historian RW Johnson, offer South Africans some advice on the old African
tradition of going to the IMF with the begging bowl.