FAILED STATE? NOT JUST YET
On various media platforms lately there have been analyses and opinion pieces that seem to suggest that South Africa is a failing state – meaning that the country is on a downward spiral and set to become the same rubbish dump as Somalia, Afghanistan or Sudan. The Africa Report published in July points to the fact that life expectancy was lower in South Africa than in war-ravaged Afghanistan.
The same report justifies the failed state label by arguing that black South Africans remain the “wretched
