The issues in South Africa are there if the media bothered to look

They can't, for a number of reasons. Afrikaners have lived in that part of the African continent centuries longer than the country's current Bantu majority. Oops! There was a small tribe of Black Africans in the same region, but I can't recall their name and wiki's Demographics page suspiciously lumps them all into "Black" and ignores actual ethnicity (something that was not the case 10 years ago). From the late 19th to mid 20th century monied interests allowed the mass migration of Bantu groups as cheap labor. Sound familiar? This obviously lead to South Africa's segregationally oriented laws of the second half of the 20th century. Was it unjust? Maybe, but the results of ending Apartheid were a disaster. Don't believe me? Ask the Zulu monarch. Then of course, there's the killings...

The issues in South Africa are there if the media bothered to look

They can't, for a number of reasons. Afrikaners have lived in that part of the Africa continent centuries longer than the country's current Bantu majority. Oops! There was a small tribe of Black Africans in the same region, but I can't recall their name and wiki's Demographics page suspiciously lumps them all into "Black" and ignores actual ethnicity (something that was not the case 10 years ago). From the late 19th to mid 20th century monied interests allowed the mass migration of Bantu groups as cheap labor. Sound familiar? This obviously lead to South Africa's segregationally oriented laws of the second half of the 20th century. Was it unjust? Maybe, but the results of ending Apartheid were a disaster. Don't believe me? Ask the Zulu monarch.