RW Johnson’s recently launched
book
‘South Africa can either choose to have an ANC
government or
it
can have a modern industrial economy. It cannot have both.’
Thursday
8 October at 12noon for 12h30
Buitenverwachting
Restaurant
Guest
speaker RW Johnson is an Emeritus Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford and was
the only South African Rhodes Scholar to return to live in South Africa after
the fall of apartheid. He has published twelve books, scores of academic
articles and innumerable articles for the international press. His former
students include three members of the current British Cabinet, an editor of The
Economist and a large number of leading academics and journalists. He lives in
Cape Town.
In
1977 his best-selling How Long Will South
Africa Survive? provided a controversial and highly original analysis of
the survival prospects of apartheid. He retained the title for his new work, partly
for nostalgic reason.
Now
after more than twenty years of ANC rule, he believes the situation has become
so critical that the question must be posed again. ‘The big question about ANC rule’ he writes,
‘is whether African nationalism would be able to cope with the challenges of
running a modern industrial economy.
Twenty years of ANC rule have shown conclusively that the party is
hopelessly ill equipped for this task…
A
fascinating book; a fascinating man.
Lunch
at Buitenverwachting Restaurant is always scrumptious. Chef/Patron Edgar Osojnik will be creating a
menu to delight and the Buitenverwachting wines to accompany are elegant and
superb.
The
price per person is R270 fully inclusive.
Telephone
021 685 8016 for more information or to request
a seat or email sandybailey@telkomsa.net
.
How Long Will South Africa
Survive - The Looming Crisis by RW Johnson is published by Jonathan Ball
Publishers.
