South Africa’s Coming of Age: A Lament for the Loss of Innocence

With great expectation, the New South Africa was born. After a brief period – like the Prague spring – it wilted under the pressure of cronyism, corruption and incompetence.

Each Society has its own rules about attaining one’s majority and some of them are illogical. For example in some one may not drink until one has reached 21 years of age but yet their sons are expected to wage war from the age of 18.

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