After a pleasant stay in South Africa where we found that, after almost three years, prices have rocketed, service provision has declined with power interruptions almost daily, and the black population has become more self-assured and therefore much easier to live with, we headed back to Pakistan. We left behind a country where deep divisions are created, politically, between a man who meant well but established an almost autocratic rule and another, who is favored by the masses notwithstanding being accused of gross corruption and rape. The latter, Zuma, will be head of the most powerful politically party until he steps in the shoes of the former, Thabo Mbeki, as head of state. In the short period we were there, just before Christmas when bank- and money transport robberies come to a fearful climax, almost 20
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