I am asked this often by concerned foreigners. I'll scratch your curious itch and give you the punchline early: The answer is rampant, destabilising, crippling, xenophobic, violent looting is the result of decades of race essentialist and socialist policies, essentially Critical Race Theory, implemented without concern to its impact on the expendable poor, by the seemingly untouchable African National Congress; once haloed birth-child of elite western socialists of the Cold War era.