Have black people failed to govern themselves?

I SIT here without any electricity — due to outrageous load-shedding or outrages induced by antiquated equipment becoming a daily occurrence — while not having potable water in our homes for a year.

I cannot help wondering — and, as so often happens in stressful times as these, where everyday is a struggle — what would have become of us had our former colonisers not built all these towns and the houses we still live in today.

Where would we be residing today since we have done a very good job of not only destroying most of what we inherited from the colonial era, and also never constructing or developing anything of note post-independence?

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