Most sub-Sahara African countries' political structures are tribal. Been that way for tens of thousands of years. It was somewhat kept in check by colonialism but after the end of that era has reverted back to the old ways. Regardless of the intervention by the U.S., the UN and NGOs, I doubt it's going to change anytime soon.
Ahh im back...
The part about the tribal chief/king is dead on, even when you get a "modern democratically elected" president that's a chief in his “spare time” there is no accountability for anything because the chief comes and goes as he pleases, they literally cant understand how its wrong to "use" state money as its the states money and the Chief is the boss of everything. We went through 8 years of this now with billions and billions off $ being wasted, every state owned enterprise is bankrupt due to incompetence, wasting, massive multi million $ tenders being awarded to incompetent friends and money laundering. We were in for one off the biggest nuclear power deals with Russia in the next couple years that would have essentially bankrupted the country just because a deal like that would have opened up billions of $ to some people, while this deal was going on our Power Supplier the largest in Africa that also supplies power to Zimbabwe, Botswana, Zambia, Namibia and SA off course basically went bankrupt due to the mentioned points…..little over $30 billion debt. Coal mines going bankrupt, gold mines going bankrupt and then stripped off anything off value to make a little more cash for the owners that were awarded the tender/ownership to “help” the people, end off the month the 100s of workers just get told sorry there is no money to pay you.
We got a new President last week after months and months off trying to get rid of the previous one with all his 100s off court cases and corruption charges, the new Prez Is probably the African Donald Trump, self-made business man that was actually supposed to be President after Nelson Mandela (was his right hand man and pushed by him to be president) so hopefully things change for the better….we will see.
Its strange, I live in 2 parts off the country, Sandton (the money hub off Africa) and in the North West (small farming town where I grew up).
In Sandton its Feraris, Lambos, Masarati, Range rovers, biggest pimped out Mercs and BMWs, 8million $ (US not Zim) houses in the NW (and just about every other call it rural area) there is no water due to no upkeep, no roads due to neglect, sewage flowing down the main streets, and just about no infrastructure due to no money being available even though rates-taxes and municipal bills are paid. Every morning in all suburbs and provinces even here next to Sandton people wake up and walk through sewage to fetch water to start the day before going to work…strange enough that driver of the $150 000 Masarati is just about always a board member in some company that won a tender that’s supposed to be responsible for the upkeep of streets or some infrastructure in some smaller town.
The new Prez promised the looting of the state money will stop now so we will see, I have met him in a different environment (farming) and know people that work for him and his a hard-core business man that doesn’t take shit so let’s see what the future holds for us, time will tell if my son grows up in SA or Texas