ah you must go, @Yehuda57 can be your guide
and thanx to Dillion Roof that flag is racist
It's more "thanks to apartheid", but whatever.
About the article, the comparisons to Zimbabwe are sadly more apt when you consider the rising number of farmer murders. That one of the primary opposition figures to Zuma is a rabid racist who would sooner see South Africa ethnically cleansed of whites than life actually improve for impoverished blacks tells you it's not pretty.
I don't think it's a question of democracy or not, though. How could any system of government function with an infrastructure designed to take care of 4 million people suddenly has to take care of 44 million people?
Mandela, flaws though he had, and even Mbecki to a lesser extent, recognized this, and tried to take things slow. Zuma and his cabinet are in it for personal gain only and couldn't give a rat's donkey about their constituents.