We can trace the the root of our issues back to the work of Codesa.  The ANC out-played, out-thought, out-maneuvered the NP at that conference into hand-delivering to them the nation - almost exactly how they wanted it.  The ANC knew that our  constitution and the make-up of Government needed to ensure they maintained power once at the helm. They got almost everything on their shopping list of political demands.  It has taken 20 years and a Zulu goat herder to expose the  true failure of the "new negotiated dispensation" everyone praised so loudly at the time.