Phrenotopia's video: What If South Africa Never Had Apartheid Alternate Afterthought

Modern day South Africa is in a mess! The hopeful Rainbow Nation of Nelson Mandela has succumbed to corruption and incompetent governance. The ruling ANC party under Jacob Zuma has become complacent, while great social inequality and poverty persists. Extremist and populist fringes like Julius Malema's EFF are now on the rise and seem to be setting the agenda for the country. The nation is clearly still struggling to overcome its historical legacy of apartheid, segregation and brutal oppression. Under former minority rule, the black majority has been systematically disenfranchised and exploited as cheap labour force. But what if South Africa had instead been at the forefront of civil rights from its very inception and apartheid had never been introduced? With the the entire populace empowered in building its society from the get go, could South Africa have become a modern African superpower? ------------------------- Also please check out my guest appearance on KhAnubis' channel, where I talk more about how South Africa could have ended up with just four official languages instead of the current eleven: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j942bn29qnw Website: https://www.phrenotopia.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Phrenotopian Video Chapters: 0:00 Prelude 0:48 Introduction 2:50 Historical Background 6:00 Alternate Point of Divergence 1 9:12 Resulting Developments 11:40 Federation of South Africa 13:48 Closing Thoughts ********* CREDITS ********* MUSIC: Intro: "The National Anthem" - Coleske (UMG) http://www.coleskeartists.co.za/ Ambient: http://freesound.org/people/frankum/ Outro: http://freesound.org/people/frankum/ FOOTAGE: Audio clip from 2003 movie “Stander” (Newmarket Films) Footage from "Fruits of Fear" documentary - http://www.aamarchives.org/ IMAGES: Image taken from website of Botswana Investment & Trade Center https://www.gobotswana.com/ DOCUMENTATION: 1. "Poverty on the rise in South Africa" http://www.statssa.gov.za/?p=10334 2. "ANALYSIS: Why South Africa’s murder rates today are not higher than ever" By Anine Kriegler & Mark Shaw https://africacheck.org/2016/07/22/analysis-why-sas-murder-rates-today-arent-higher-than-ever/ 3. "World Economic Outlook, April 2016 : Too Slow for Too Long" https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/Issues/2016/12/31/World-Economic-Outlook-April-2016-Too-Slow-for-Too-Long-43653 4. "Language and National Unity in a Post-Apartheid South Africa" Eric P. Louw (1992) - Critical Arts http://archive.lib.msu.edu/DMC/African%20Journals/pdfs/Critical%20Arts/cajv6n1/caj006001004.pdf 5. "Language Policy and National Unity in South Africa/Azania" Neville Alexander (1989) http://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/language-policy-and-national-unity-south-africa-neville-alexander 6. "Bantu Babel. Will the Bantu languages live?" Nhlapo J (1944) - Cape Town: The African Bookman COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL: Any unlicensed copyrighted material used in this video is done so for purposes of education, review and/or satire and thus covered by "Fair Use". No ownership is claimed for any such materials other than my own.