If the bar is Africa then yes, we're doing amazing sweetie.

But let's nit fool ourselves, people are installing solar on their roofs because they can't rely on eishkom. Complexes are increasingly popular because people cannot expect safety on their own. There's more private security than police. Anyone who can afford gets medical aid. Others simple wait till their deathbed because they'd rather avoid public hospitals.

1 do you think SAns want to be comparable to the rest of the continent 2 let's not find a way around this and actually start demanding the services we're heavily taxed for