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RE: Continuing the good African news story
It would be amazing to see Sub-Saharan Africa uplifted. In South Africa the dissatisfaction definitely is lack of facilities to good education, crime and rampant poverty.
Certain things such as running water and electricity should have reached a lot more people by now. Housing in shacks is not a place to live!
If there is a silver lining under the dark cloud, let it be people receive what was promised many years ago.
I couldn't agree more with you, @joanstewart! I thought I'd take a look at the Gini coefficients for those six countries I mentioned and see the extent to which dissatisfaction with standard of living correlates with inequality. I also think visible, rampant corruption and its products - the ones you've mentioned above - have a major role to play in that dissatisfaction.
South Africans simply deserve better than what they're getting. They were sold a bill of goods that they were getting a democracy along with its fruits that would overturn a great historical wrong, and instead they got, well...this.
After the last ten years I think most are gobsmacked and confused. Swan song of politicians in many countries....
Sigh....