Why South Africa’s Political System Is ‘Unsustainable’: Ernst Roets

"There's a vast network of destructive laws and policies in South Africa: the race laws, the threats to property rights, what they call the Expropriation Act, and we can go down the list. There's just so many examples.

But it's easy to make the mistake to think that we should change some of these policies and that would provide a solution to South Africa, or we should just get someone else to be the President of South Africa and then the country would be fixed, or we should vote in one of the opposition parties and then all of this would be over. If you think about it for just a moment, you would recognize that these problems would still be there, because it's a structural problem.

And the structural problem could be summarized by saying that it's a very big country, it's a very diverse country, but it has an extremely centralized political system, a political system - some people call it an oligarchy - that is very disconnected from realities on ground level. It's an ideological experiment.

It's an experiment that says that we need to get all these nations living in South Africa to abandon what used to be their national identities or cultural identities, and take up this new identity. And then we would reach some form of utopia." - Ernst Roets

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