Edit: I mean what is the reason that it has so much crime? Hasn’t it become worse in the last several years? Why?
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So start with a large part of the population being impoverished essentially second class citizens.
Then when white minority rule ends a large portion is still left behind.
Then there were large volumes of capital flight.
Then beyond the mining industry there’s bugger all exports.
Throw in a healthy dose of corruption and you have a country which is impoverished and has a massive amount of unemployment.
Living by societies rules means starvation so people turn to crime and often violent crime.
South Africa was a rich country that spent much of its wealth on a grand social engineering scheme called apartheid. It also spent huge amounts of money on guaranteeing the safety of its white population. It systemically undereducated its black population so they could be a source of cheap labour to white business, deprived them of economic opportunity and treated them like shit. There was a lot of crime, but it was confined to black areas.
None of the root causes were addressed. At the end of apartheid, the ANC came in, and despite an overall commitment to democracy, it was also deeply corrupt. A deadly mixture of incompetence and corruption meant that economic growth stalled. Crime was never dealt with. Borders were left open, which helped swell huge levels of unemployment that affect the country.
There seems in recent years to be a massive drug problem (“nyope”) that has worsened the situation.
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