Three decades of rule by the African National Congress (ANC) has destroyed South Africa. Hardly surprising: this is what always happens when Soviet assets get to power.
"South Africa now exports more copper than its mines produce" - the global scrap metals market is bigger than you think, and copper is a top price metal. There's probably a political science paper in correlating one-party corruption and other states of lawlessness with electricity blackouts because copper is so fungible.
The Long Shadow of the Soviet Union in South Africa
"South Africa now exports more copper than its mines produce" - the global scrap metals market is bigger than you think, and copper is a top price metal. There's probably a political science paper in correlating one-party corruption and other states of lawlessness with electricity blackouts because copper is so fungible.