because the government continues to pay the apartheid debt. In the first years after the handover, it cost the new government 30 billion rand annually (about $4.5 billion) in servicing—a sum that provides a stark contrast with the paltry total of $85 million that the government ultimately paid out to more than nineteen thousand victims of apartheid killings and torture and their families.
They got governmental control, but are forced to pay the debt of the apartheid, where they were the victims, and got no say in the economy (controlled by white supremacist).
