It is ironic that many countries ostensibly dedicated to the cause of freedom are doing their level best to destroy free enterprise in South Africa, by their unthinking imposition of economic sanctions. Luckily they have not quite succeeded, and their ally, the Communist-dominated African National Congress (ANC), is no longer doing so well.
The government in Pretoria, meanwhile, has been trying very hard to speed up the growth of a black middle class. This has a dual purpose: to increase the number of well-heeled consumers who not only produce but buy goods, and to foster a class of property-owning blacks who would be resistant to revolutionary slogans.
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