South Africa is a sad place
350 years of colonial rule.
80+ years of apartheid
Generations and generation of locals that has zero to little education.
The education they have is to teach them to be secondary citizens.
now the leaders they choose in are not fixing education. Without education, it is impossible to improve.
Many years ago, I was part of an organization that donated computers to rural village school.
The tears in they eyes, together with the singing and dancing and wanting to touch our hands, when they see us coming in, and then later my tears of seeing how tough the conditions there.
This is still one of the better ones which has brick and mortar classrooms. I have seen some that don't have roofs, some teach under a tree... yes, in 2022.
1995 till today, is filled with corruptions by the new leaders. South Africa will need time for its own people to fix the crimes of the leaders they chose.
It is pretty much a 1 party state at the moment and until more parties come into the equation, change won't happen.
the corrupted are invincible, because everyone has the hand in the same cookie jar and they all protect each other.
The most expensive property in Dubai is owned by a South African - with close ties to the previous president - someone who had a wedding party and jetted in foriegn citizens and landed in an airforce airport and had security escorted to Sun City (the whole resort was booked out). Many people couldn't believe it, but what can you do about it. Some "major" who arranged it took the fall, but do you really think a major can do so much for a family that is best mates with the big boss?
Your question of economic prosperity is valid, but then again, every one views things differently.
Not everyone choose economic prosperity, some choose freedom, some choose peace, some choose lifestyle (ask all those Europeans who move to a 3rd world South Africa, it doesn't makes sense, but they prefer the climate over a 1st world country service and earning less).
Self righteousness - I'm not going to PR myself to you, but hey, i'm a public figure. You can google me and you can see a lot of my activities with the "black citizens" as you call it.
I can always choose to profit off it, but I'm not in your whatsapp group.
My TT shop came to help the TT community and i'm still using resources through my relationship with vendors to help.
What ever mess South Africa is in, does not determine who I am, or what I do. In fact it is the total opposite - you really need to be in tough places to see what is the true value of being a human
Just like in China, CCP actions does not determine all Chinese are wanting war and not having more rights.
What you did wrong is to make assumptions of because SA is that, so you generalize me or anyone from SA? That is very low.
I do know many people who moved to other parts of Africa that has lower GDP. Google the needs of Human. Its not all about dollar signs.