Non-Fiction Critical Analysis

       "After Mandela," an article featured in the January 13th issue of Upfront Magazine, by Patricia Smith, is an article that summarizes the successes and setbacks of Mandela's rule of South Africa. She includes people that express their ideas about his leadership. Most of her sources conclude that because Mandela ended apartheid, South Africa is in a much better state. But others like William Gumede point at the unemployment rates among blacks and adds how twenty percent of all adults that live there have AIDS. The current President in South Africa is also put into spotlight in the article. Jacob Zuma has been suspected of corruption and accused of rape. Why after all these years of Mandela's praise for fixing the country, will presidents return to become corrupt? Well, in the article it ends up pointing out that the country was yes, deterred from the continuation of apartheid, but current presidents have become faineant in fixing the unemployment rates, and South Africa may need another "Mandela" to save it from another catastrophe.
           Smith uses many craft moves to push the idea of failure returning in South Africa. One for example, is when she hints the claim, without totally revealing it to draw the reader in. This is very smart of Smith because many people, mainly because of Mandela's passing, are close with the idea that he fixed South Africa completely, and some people would have passed the article if she straight away wrote that Mandela did not completely fix up the country. Also, Smith uses according examples and quotes that trump the thought of the 'utopian' country after Mandela. Even after apartheid, of all blacks, only 15% aren't poor. So with example, Smith trumps people that said that all blacks live without poverty in South Africa.
           I personally that the country seriously needs to be put into shape. South Africa needs new laws, new government, and a new president before it can finally become a developed country. With half the countries population poor, the rich can pretty much have all the power. Looking at developed and thriving countries like Japan, where unemployment is under 4% which allows for a great majority country to become middle-class or rich. If South Africa can replicate how a thriving country succeeds, they too can succeed.