Check out the book “Twilight in the Desert” by Matt Simmons, a now deceased energy trader. He makes the case that the oil is running out in SA as evidenced by t

Check out the book “Twilight in the Desert” by Matt Simmons, a now deceased energy trader. He makes the case that the oil is running out in SA as evidenced by their lead in patents for ever more challenging methods of extracting oil (presumably unnecessary if their oil was so readily available). Also, the nature of OPEC is that quotas are set on reported reserves which have no third party validation. And lastly, ever since the western countries handed back oil production to SA, they have reliably been finding more and more oil every year (pumping up those reported reserves) than the western countries were ever able to find (and presumably they were quite motivated).