Your Savant came under heavy attack for forecasting that South Africa will go the way of Zimbabwe. But all the ingredients are there, most notably the disconnect in the African mentality between production and consumption. Like the cargo cults in the Pacific, Africans tend to see the good things in life as something to be acquired, without the bothersome distraction of actually producing them.
So it's little surprise then when we learn from that country's main Sunday newspaper that thousands of white doctors are being rejected for medical posts (the posts thus remaining unfilled), and then emigrating - hopefully many come to Ireland. As a result the standard of medical services, especially in the public sphere, has plummeted.
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more interesting example concerns that of the University of KwaZulu Natal which once had a high international ranking. This has now plummeted to joke status, easily understood when you consider the vice-chancellor, one William Makgoba. He has described whites (who make up about 90% of faculty staff) as 'superannuated apes', and recommends that they eat, speak and dress like Africans. The same Bill has adopted the Oxford-inspired academic ritual of greasing himself every morning in lion fat to help him confront his opponents.
Still think the Zimbabwe analogy to be over the top?
So it's little surprise then when we learn from that country's main Sunday newspaper that thousands of white doctors are being rejected for medical posts (the posts thus remaining unfilled), and then emigrating - hopefully many come to Ireland. As a result the standard of medical services, especially in the public sphere, has plummeted.
An even

Still think the Zimbabwe analogy to be over the top?