What must South Africans make of the Eskom debacle, service delivery protests, the seemingly never-ending e-toll dispute and the infighting at SARS and the SAPS/Hawks? Is it all just because of one man, Jacob Zuma, or is there more than that going on?

Looking at American political scientist Francis Fukuyama’s recent tome Political Order and Political Decay (2014), it becomes clear that we are part of a universal pattern.

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Written by political and trend analyst JP Landman