South Africa is the only country that has gone from first to third world status. IMHO
Agreed.
My heart goes out to the common folk there who are having their lives destroyed for Socialism. One can easily see why people from nearby hellholes like Cuba, Haiti, etc will eagerly put their lives at risk in leaky, overcrowded boats and rafts in a desperate effort to leave such places and come to the USA.
It's always been a third world country with first world enclaves, which have unfortunately gotten much smaller in recent years.
Afraid not. Their next door neighbor, Zimbabwe, is worse off. They used to be the very properous nation of Rhodesia.
The Communists penetrated most countries of Africa and started a campaign against "Colonization" and insisted that Africa be returned to Africans. Over time, a once very prosperous continent became what it is today.
We shouldn't shake our heads from afar, they are trying to do the same in this country right now. With promises of an earthly paradise the Communists always manage to turn prosperity into poverty, slave labor, and slaughter