South Africa Deteriorates

Because of Nelson Mandela, South Africa didn't follow the sad path of Zimbabwe and other African nations. His idea was to keep white settlers in South Africa and grow the prosperity of the nation using their capital and skills.

Since Mandela retired, the political movement he founded, the African National Congress (ANC), has ever so slowly been moving away from his model. Now we see a popular ANC youth leader, Julius Malema, trying to take the nation farther in the direction of throwing out the whites.

It is bad news for the last semi-developed nation on the continent, but may be inevitable. This BBC News article is about developments there.