Cyril should have been made Prez when Mandela retired. Job was given to reverse racist comrades from the struggle instead and Cyril was done out of a position he would have used to further the success of SA's transition, rather then to plunge everyone but a strata of political elites into dire straits. Cyril is a business man, not a wannabe chief. This huge difference has kept Ramaphosa from power.
In real terms, the ANC had destroyed itself and the opposition needs to become the next government in order to begin the reversal of that destruction., The major cities under opposition municipal governance are already showing great strides forward, but a general election defeat would finalise the death star that is the ANC. They could have been successful, but they grabbed the cash instead and associated themselves and surrounded themselves with dodgy support, and in Zuma's case, virtually sold the country by means of State Capture to a family of Indians.
I agree with you that Britain is staring its own demise in the face. I was so upset about this way back when I came to support its revival on the net, that I hoped British people might do something wonderful to overturn the damage. Brexit was the great hope. I'm not so sure now that the new voters are going to be capable of comprehending what they are losing by their present indolence on the matter of heritage, survival and the necessity of independence. They seem oblivious to everything that isn't a message on a small screen. That goes for this lot world wide.
It gives the window of opportunity to whichever usurper is waiting for a chance to lop off the head of an ancient nation and weld the body onto the new fascist global market of a few super rich beings who control the great mass of human economic slaves.
Sci-fi imitates life, it seems. Mostly because few are willing to step up to the plate and say the emperors are naked.