There is a sense of doom and gloom prevalent throughout this fair land, it seems. Talk of emigration; fear of racial pogroms; a gluttonous tax regime and the entrenched and seemingly irreversible tide of state corruption have conspired to bring levels of business confidence to their lowest ever ebb. But, [...]

CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY! Alan Paton’s words were never more appropriate than now, and these are brought even more into focus as the country bids farewell to that other doyenne of South African literary liberals, Nadine Gordimer. We have very few remaining loud voices of reason. Archbishop Desmond Tutu is [...]