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I agree with the sentiment that during the apartheid era SA was seen to be a positive economy. How difficult could it be to out perform other countries when you can use slave labour? The country as a whole was producing more than it consumed because 80% was feeding 20% with their lives.
I know it is not that simple but I just wanted to demonstrate why the apartheid era economy is not a fair benchmark. I'm not amazed that currently we are suffering from many challenges including load shedding. Just to give you a first hand example of the remnants of apartheid. Where I live there is an area that falls under the " rule" of an inkosi. It borders the township and many families who's members worked in the nearby town built their homes there. Remember that in the old says you couldn't have your family out of the 'homelands" unless you could get a 4 room house allocated by the township super. So this area provided an alternative because all one had to do was to petition the inkosi to consider you as a "subject" and thus provide you with land to build a house for your family. Technically you lived in the "homeland".
Families grow and enterprising people will build bigger good looking houses but there were some catches in the form of sewerage and electricity. The bathrooms were left empty in most cases and the walls had no plug points. Then came "freedom". People wanted to electrify their homes and guess what, ESKOM was not able to include these homes on their grid!!! They still have no electricity or sewerage works.
In short I feel that now that we are all sharing our country, a lot more things will be put under pressure and some things won't hold.
As for who has rights over SA I also stand corrected. If the Nguni weren't living by some sort of understanding with the Khoi I only see a few deductions. Firstly if the Nguni had stolen the land from the Khoi, there would be no Khoi today because they would be Nguni since they would have been absorbed. Lastly maybe the Khoi were at home on the beaches to the South of the country as they are / were nomadic by nature.
I'm no boffin but those who know are welcome to enlighten me!
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