It doesn't matter. Even for HDI, South Africa has high averages for the overall population but for the black population all the metrics are below average. It's like living in a palace as a waiter and laughing at someone who owns a bungalow. I think South Africa will be in the rough for a long time while the rest of Africa grows zooms by. You only need to check the education statistics to see how bad things are for the Africans there. For some reason, in all areas where Africans have been dominated, e.g. Brazil, USA and South Africa you get the same results - high averages that mask the plight of the Africans and the attendant results ghettos, violence & poor results. Real economic progress for Africans will have to come from Nigeria, Kenya and the rest of SSA apart from SA.

Their black empowerment programme is similar to our much maligned Africanisation policy of the Jomo Kenyatta era.. Few blacks will get rich

One thing about Nigeria is that they haven't let their tribalism permeate politics the way Kenya has. In Kenya, tribalism is toxic to development. We have had three presidents who have enjoyed solid support from their ethnic bases regardless of how incompetent, corrupt or neglectful they were. So while Nigeria has been rushing ahead at break-neck speed, Kenyans are too busy frolicking in their tribal elements. Nigerians don't obsess over elections as Kenyans do. Kenya virtually comes to a standstill for one year prior to elections as idlers wait to be addressed by their tribal chiefs.

Ha ha ha. No Tribalism in Nigeria? You are dead wrong! Why was Yar Adua sneaked into the country dead? Why is BokoHaram mostly in the North? Why did some folks in South-East protest when Wole Soyinka (a Yoruba) won a Nobel Price, rather than the much fancied Chinua Achebe (an Igbo)? What wsa the genesis of the Biafran War? What about the last year's policy of relocating Igbos from Lagos to Onitsha? Why is the APC likely to win next elections and not PDP?

Boss, stop hating your country that much to the extent of calling Nigeria a non-tribal politics country. THAT MY FRIEND, IS A LIE! Nigerians MUST be the most tribalistic IDIOTS on the African Continent by far, maybe followed by Kenyans or South Sudanese!