Frans Cronje argues that even an ANC/EFF/MK coalition may not devastate South Africa’s middle classes, because state failure has already driven them into private enclaves able to insulate themselves from Pretoria.
10 minIn this clip, Frans Cronje explains that South Africa may be seeing the break-up of the Union of 1910. He explains how, as the central South African state fails, the country fractures into “Balkans”, and that the ensuing “enclaves” will provide middle-class South Africans with the realistic prospect of living productive and fulfilling lives in South Africa, regardless of the goings-on in Pretoria.

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