India, Aug. 2 -- As PM Modi has said, what is needed is Minimum Government, Maximum Governance. The entire Global South should follow his maxim.
Some countries have all the requisites of success, and yet languish as underperformers. South Africa is a case in point. The country is gifted with scarce minerals, several unexploited as yet, and a populace that can surprise the world with their achievements once correctly trained. South Africa had been colonised by settlers from the Netherlands, known locally as Afrikaners. They were brutal in their treatment of native South Africans, quick to imprison and thereafter to kill by hanging. Reports have it that when Nelson Mandela spent his decades in a South African prison, there were occasions dur...