Service delivery: The aftermath
of a protest in Diepsloot in
2022. South Africa must avoid
institutionalised violence
against citizens. Photo: Papi
Morake/Gallo Images
‘I was once a great democratic leader of a prosperous African country … never mind what happened after 1997.”
Imagine former president Robert Mugabe rising from the grave and in his languid colonial British accent making such a remark. Only historians, political scientists and those old enough will make sense of him — able to recall the glories of a pre-Economic Structural…
