As far back as 1941, the historian CW de Kiewiet stated that South Africa had advanced politically by disasters and economically by windfalls.

Jan Smuts, a former prime minister of the Union of South Africa, held the view in 1949 that neither the worst nor the best happens in South Africa...

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