Eyes Wide Open - Lunch at Buitenverwachting

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.