Afrikaans has some pretty difficult sounds for English speakers! After 20 years I still struggle with "r" since the Afrikaans r is said somewhere up on the hard palate, whereas in French (which I speak) it's deep in the throat. Let's just say they laugh at me when I try to put a sentence together. But yeah, it is said to watch the tyrants win. Maybe it's why Game of Thrones and House of Cards are so popular - the good guys don't always win. I don't think it's that South Africa is becoming a bureaucracy or more technocratic; it was pretty technocratic during the dark days of apartheid. It's more that it's becoming a kleptocracy, and the methods the bad guys have used have been impressive. Bad, but the planning and execution is truly awe-inspiring, not to mention the scale of their vision - "let's steal an entire country and make the citizens pay for it". Amazing.