To assume that politicians and governments in general are corrupt is nothing new. Power corrupts. If a good corporation was a person it would be a psychopath, everything is reduced to income/expenditure, morality is ignored unless it can be calculated in terms of profit/loss. This is also well known.

These are the cards that we have been dealt. Every political party has their "turn to eat" when they win an election. However, to reduce these negative effects and to spread the joy around, it is critical that a single party not stay in power too long. It is critical that NGOs and civic society be strengthened and government accountability and transparency improved.

South Africa needs to cycle out their government and get a completely new one.