It's all the fault of Jan van Riebeeck for arriving here in 1652.
On a slightly less sarcastic note, one of my favourite quotes from politicians here was our minister of education, in 2012:
"One of the points we found was a problem in Maths and Science. It was [Apartheid-era President] Verwoerd who made the subjects difficult because he thought blacks would be a threat to him."
Literally "the white man made maths difficult on purpose to keep a black brother down".
Black South Africans take power and run the country into the ground. Who do they blame for their own mismanagement? The Boers, of course.
It's all the fault of Jan van Riebeeck for arriving here in 1652.
On a slightly less sarcastic note, one of my favourite quotes from politicians here was our minister of education, in 2012:
Literally "the white man made maths difficult on purpose to keep a black brother down".
So close to self-awareness, yet so far.