> The problem is rule of law, or lack thereof. Rule of law is critical infrastructure.

I agree 100%

> Also, South Africa isn't sub-Saharan Africa.

Indeed. Which made me even less impressed by my example of power outages. South Africa clearly has a massive political problem with corruption; they have the money and technology to keep the power on.

South Africa is in Africa and south of the Sahara and usually qualifies.

Culturally it's a mix. There are a bunch of people from black African areas who are culturally African and then a bunch originating from Holland and England who are culturally European. It's changed a bit as to which lot run different things.