Makhanda is tragically unworthy of Rhodes’ majesty ― ANC is worthy of neither

“Don’t drink the water!” was the firm instruction of the staff as I entered the guesthouse in Makhanda. What a strange prohibition, but this was Wakanda (that fictional country of Marvel comics), as one academic naughtily called it, where a world-class university is surrounded by a third-world municipality. It is a problem that has existed for decades and to the locals it appears insoluble.