There is some comfort to be derived from navel-gazing. South Africans’ almost obsessive contemplation of their own struggles and injustices provides a measure of insulation from a wider set of truths that are almost too horrible to contemplate.
To be fair, we have many reasons to be aggrieved: a lack of adequate growth, poor governance and widespread corruption have meant many of the worst of consequences of apartheid have yet to be addressed, and people are starting to question if they ever will be.