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.

I was invited to speak to a network of psychologists and other stakeholders regarding the dangers of Critical Theory in Counselling as it relates to countries like South Africa. My talk spun from my paper here: Angelo Vincenzo De Boni (psychreg.org) 

And my experience running my own business for 21 years. 

Since my talk a local politician, Helen Zille published a book forwarding the dangers of Woke culture to fragile nations like South Africa. https://romancabanac.substack.com/p/stay-woke-go-broke-review-by-helen