Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana, philosopher, The Life of Reason, 1905
We've seen this play out already. Rhodesia 1980, independence (~Zimbabwe). 20 years later (observations by Martin Meredith, historian):
the average Zimbabwean was worse off in 2000 than he had been in 1980: "average wages were lower, unemployment had trebled, public services were crumbling, and life expectancy was falling."
In 2000, hoping to win support from rural blacks, Mugabe introduced a fast-track land reform programme under which groups of ZANUβPF activists, officially referred to as "war veterans", were sent to take over white-owned farms so the land could be split up, without compensation, and redistributed to black peasant farmers. White farmers and their black employees were violently forced out, food production plummeted, and the economy collapsed to half the size it had been in 1980.
South Africa is just Rhodesia, 30 years later. Same playbook. Same outcome.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
We've seen this play out already. Rhodesia 1980, independence (~Zimbabwe). 20 years later (observations by Martin Meredith, historian):
South Africa is just Rhodesia, 30 years later. Same playbook. Same outcome.