The Strange Death of the National Party

[AuH2O]

Note: by any agreed upon definition, South Africa is not a democracy, and never has been- though the Apartheid regime comes closer to a textbook definition.

Thus, "politics" there is largely irrelevant. In 50 years, there won't be any whites left there, and most probably not all that many blacks the way AIDS is going.

[AuH2O]

Requirement of democracy: competitive elections.

As far as South Africa, anyone with half, maybe even a quarter, of a brain can tell it's going downhill. It's upside is a smaller version of Nigeria, which I guess isn't too bad. They still have resources.

[AuH2O]

I should have clarified: the whites will have emigrated or been killed, while the blacks will suffer from AIDS.

AIDS, btw, could evolve to be substantially nastier if we continue to produce drugs that inhibit it without curing it. It might not be curable (in the forseeable future), if there are enough different strands. Nature has a tendency to get its way... Europe's population losses from the black plague were gargantuan... some places lost 2/3 in a short time span. AIDS works more slowly, but since it's victims live for years with the disease, it's difficult to isolate it or have it run its course.

[AuH2O]

Um am I missing something? He's the screw-up, not the party... I don't think they wanted him to flush the country down the drain, though I could be wrong.