South Africa's Brave New World: The Beloved Country since the End of Apartheid »

R.W. Johnson is Emeritus Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, where he taught many years. Formerly director of the Helen Suzman Foundation in Johannesburg, his contributions to the international press have given him an unequalled reputation as a writer on Southern African affairs.

The universal jubilation that greeted Nelson Mandela's inauguration of South Africa in 1994 and the banishment of apartheid is one of the most thrilling, hopeful stories in the modern era. This book tells the story of South Africa from that magic period to the bitter disappointment of the present.

Economist

R.W. Johnson is a historian, but also a polemical journalist, and he writes with passion about the present. He provides a robustly liberal critique of the new South Africa.