Comparing two different polities, especially with different demographics, history and economies, can be fraught and error-ridden.

Writing in Politicsweb recently, RW Johnson dismissed as “very silly” attempts to find “alleged SA analogies” in sovereign and leadership comparisons “as if everything that happens in the world needs to be translated into what it means for SA”...

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