What the decay of South Africa House in London says about the country.
5 minSouth Africa House on Trafalgar Square in London, once a flagship diplomatic address, has been shut down due to severe decay and neglect. Frans Cronje and Gabriel Makin discuss the dirty windows uncleaned for decades, rude anti-Putin stickers left untouched, and broken facilities that mirror South Africa’s broader institutional collapse, from Parliament burning down to failing foreign policy. A stark symbol of how the ANC’s neglect has left South Africa embarrassed on the world stage.

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