The Ciskei experiment: a libertarian fantasy in apartheid South Africa

Published: April 14, 2023, 4 a.m.

In the 1980s, South African libertarians set up a deregulated zone that they sold to the world as \u2018Africa\u2019s Switzerland\u2019. It was a sham, but with its clusters of sweatshops, it was very modern \u2013 and in some ways it anticipated the world we live in today. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod