The ANC’s “addiction to state-run everything” is going to take a long time to turn around, Lord Robin Renwick tells Bruceps.
Robin Renwick, Lord Renwick, was the UK ambassador to South Africa from 1987 to 1991. He was here for the end of PW Botha and the release of Nelson Mandela.he tells Peter Bruce of his rank disappointment at the way the “new beginning” he played such a large role in has been frittered away. South Africa, he says, “has almost the lowest literacy rate in Africa, let alone the world. It is a catastrophic failure, and appalling situation.”lecture in Cape Town on Friday.
That might be changing now, but the ANC’s “addiction to state-run everything” is going to take a long time to turn around.
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