OPINION | What the EFF and ANC can learn from the desert people
Here’s my theory about southern African governance: the closer you are to a desert, the better you run your country. Let’s take, as the first example, neighbour Botswana, a poor protectorate huddling under the protection of the British Crown until independence in 1966.
In Botswana, after diamonds were discovered in the ’70s, the country and its government could have gone mad in a spending spree with its newfound mega-wealth. That they didn’t was testimony to the doctrine of conserving what you have against possible tough times. There may be plenty of money – as demonstrated by the country’s reserves and its balance of payments – but the government has not, by and large, splurged. The same might be said in many ways for Botswana’s western, and our northwestern, neighbour, Namibia.
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