@bocasho_braaf If Checkers and Pick and Pay monopolize the townships then the Spaza Shops die. The township economy is lucky that the environment keeps out the formal players who they can't compete with
@KeyedCorbusier Maybe the intellectuals at the top were soft, suburban types but the guys doing the organizing and street fighting were often drawn from the criminal class. It's a common problem for militant groups to get derailed in this way
"[A] batch of some fifty or sixty Australian prisoners were marched off close beside us — immensely big and powerful men, who without question represented an élite formation of the British Empire, a fact that was also evident in battle." — Field Marshall Erwin Rommel, 1942