South Africa's Slow, Inevitable March Towards Collapse | Wendover Productions
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South Africa's Slow, Inevitable March Towards Collapse | Wendover Productions

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 8, 202630 min
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For a moment, there was so much hope. Apartheid was over. South Africa had, for decades, essentially operated as two different nations superimposed on the same landscape.

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There was the White Nation, wealthy and westernized, boasting a similar, if not higher standard of living to that of Europe due to its similarly strong and diversified economy. Then there was the Black Nation, impoverished and excluded from that wealthier White Nation by a legally enshrined system of segregation.

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It felt like Europeans had just built an insular outpost in Africa. That's to say, it felt like what it was. But finally, following decades of internal struggle and mounting international pressure that reached a climax with the waning need for an African anti-Soviet ally, the nation's

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