The author partially blaims African nationalism for some of the ills of SA but I think if anything, and this is true in many African countries, the problem is a lack of genuine nationalism.
Lack of national identity and the dominance of kinship relations in potitics (in SA of course the apartheid history being a big contributor to this), forms the basis of kleptocracy and factionalism, also observable in Latin America. When private relations start to override loyalty to the commons, people start to rob the state.
Ideologically the anti-colonial, politically Marxist but economically flexible model is pretty decent as far as development goes, many Asian countries can attest to that. I think SA's problems are mundane really in the sense that it's easy to diagnose but hard to fix. A divided population and an incompetent leadership, it's sadly not extraordinary.
Lack of national identity and the dominance of kinship relations in potitics (in SA of course the apartheid history being a big contributor to this), forms the basis of kleptocracy and factionalism, also observable in Latin America. When private relations start to override loyalty to the commons, people start to rob the state.
Ideologically the anti-colonial, politically Marxist but economically flexible model is pretty decent as far as development goes, many Asian countries can attest to that. I think SA's problems are mundane really in the sense that it's easy to diagnose but hard to fix. A divided population and an incompetent leadership, it's sadly not extraordinary.