South Africa's Slow, Inevitable March Towards Collapse

Adolf Goebbels
Published on Oct 24, 2023
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References
[1] https://origins.osu.edu/article/south-africa-mandela-apartheid-ramaphosa-zuma-corruption?language_content_entity=en
[2] https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/48614444.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A551e31fbda4b25786b54c968593e28ba&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&origin=&initiator=&acceptTC=1
[3] https://www.news.uct.ac.za/article/-2013-05-13-black-middle-class-doubles-in-eight-years#:~:text=The%20Unilever%20Institute%27s%20latest%20study,over%20R400%2Dbillion%20per%20annum
[4] https://www.statssa.gov.za/?p=12211
[5] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/VC.IHR.PSRC.P5?locations=ZA
[6] https://www.news24.com/citypress/news/rising-crime-low-prosecution-rates-how-law-enforcement-in-sa-has-all-but-collapsed-20191021
[7] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1378784/transnet-total-volume-of-freight-by-type/#:~:text=Transnet%20SOC%20Ltd%20recorded%20their,some%20173%20million%20metric%20tons
[8] https://theconversation.com/suspension-of-two-south-african-judges-has-opened-up-debates-about-bad-working-conditions-and-poor-delivery-of-justice-212021
[9] https://www.eskom.co.za/distribution/customer-service/outages/municipal-loadshedding-schedules/eastern-cape/