I think it would win Pliny’s admiration, too, and that he would see that it is not frivolous novelty, but stable and sensible normality that is South Africa’s great achievement.
So I think he would re-write his quotable phrase, to suggest that the key ingredient in the immense progress we have made in the past ten years has been, not “semper aliquid novi”, but “semper aliquid normalis” - always something normal out of South Africa.