In one sense, at least, the ANC regime substantially outperformed the Nats - the killing of predominantly Black people. Given the Nats' 67 Sharpeville "scorecard", the ANC's 115 (Esidimeni), 34 (Marikana) and the annual slaughter of some 7 000 children under five years of age - mainly rural and mainly Black - by forcing them to use contaminated water borders on latter-day genocide, and is way more "impressive." But, hey, the bigger picture means that the ANC saves R25-million or so every year by not having to pay child grants for dead kids.