EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK
LUKANYO MNYANDA: SA not alone in overplaying its exceptionalism — good or bad
Devastating levels of unemployment and poverty are a long-term risk to our democracy. But is it a uniquely South African phenomenon?
What do you miss most about living in the UK? That’s a question often asked in the past couple of weeks. The most obvious answer is not the weather. Only slightly tongue in cheek, I then mention the ease of communication and rarely needing to enter a shopping mall. I left SA still suspicious of the internet but by the time I got back I was buying everything online, from groceries to clothes. Judging by cricketer Dale Steyn’s tweet this month about the cost of mobile data in SA compared with Bali, this seems hardly a special observation. In the past few years I’ve hardly given thought to the cost of mobile data, having had access to phone packages that offered more than I could ever use at low prices. Not anymore. I could also rant about my own farcical attempt at trying to get an internet connection in SA, including logging on to my account with the prospective provider only to be confronted with a message telling me my query is low priority. Did nobody think that having clients see...
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