When pondering the chronic power crisis affecting South Africa one is reminded of the term ineptocracy: “Asystem of government where the least capableto lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members ofsociety least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goodsand services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number ofproducers.”
There is not much point in pondering as to what things might have been had the airliner in 1960 carrying half-American British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan crashed on its way to South Africa. The premier’s notorious Winds of Change speech on February 3 sounded the death knell on a republic which in terms of prestige was equal to the then United States and Canada.
Today, rolling blackouts in South Africa are largely responsible for the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) shrinking more than predicted. Official data shows a drop of…
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