The poverty situation we find ourselves in now, is of the governments own making.  If we consider the cumulative amount of money lost through any single act of corruption, the cost of legal and administrative  actions associated to each corrupt event and the new more, expensive price to be paid( inflation, exchange rate, down grade) to achieve the original required goal - since 1994....

The most arbitrary calculation would show a significant improvement to the economic position of every man, woman and child. 

What is worse: The racist political regime that founded the structural mechanisms of poverty in our country, or the revolutionist regime that failed to overcome those structures because of corruption and greed?

Helen is correct and to point, as usual.   And to think all this could have been avoided.