There is a lot of talk in the air of how violent South African politics is becoming. There is even talk of the prospect of democracy being superseded by a dictatorship. Is that a plausible prospect? How would it happen?
If such a scenario is possible, it is because many of the necessary elements already exist. Replacing democracy with a darker political form is not a question of creating something entirely novel but of rearranging existing pieces into a new puzzle. What are these pieces?