EDITOR'S NOTE: SA and Africa in 2017
We’ve cobbled together perhaps the best collection of writers to give you an almost unfair advantage when it comes to predicting which track the roller coaster has in store for 2017
Michael Phelps, the American swimmer who boasts 28 Olympic medals and holds just about every record worth having, supposedly said: "I won’t predict anything historic, but nothing is impossible." It could have been the soundtrack for 2016. Inconceivably, the most powerful nation on earth has elected an egomaniacal reality TV star, vowing all sorts of warped populist notions, as its leader; Britain voted to leave the EU; and here at home, it emerged that the country’s locus of power is really Saxonwold rather than the Union Buildings. In this edition, we’ve cobbled together perhaps the best collection of writers in a single volume to give you an almost unfair advantage when it comes to predicting which track the roller coaster has in store for 2017. So, former Sunday Times editor Ray Hartley bets on the reinstatement of corruption charges against Jacob Zuma, Claire Bisseker tells us exactly how worried we should be about a ratings downgrade next year and Giulietta Talevi tells us why ...
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