TONY LEON: The seismic shock waiting in South Africa's wings
'Zuma and his outriders signal that they will consider proposing scrapping the constitutional clause which protects property owners from arbitrary expropriation'
Present at the Creation was the title of US Secretary of State Dean Acheson’s autobiography. As the US’s chief diplomat between 1949 and 1953, he inaugurated and witnessed key events that shaped our world after the end of the war against Hitler and the commencement of the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union. The founding of Nato, the massive Marshall Plan, which resurrected Germany from the rubble of the Third Reich, and the US’s entry into the Korean War were huge events, all of which created the architecture for the new world order. The world back then might have been scary and threatening to many, but it was also stable and its patterns predictable. Today, once- settled outcomes and assured patterns are utterly unpredictable and highly uncertain.Being back in London last week and witnessing the extraordinary results of the UK general election on Thursday reminded me that I was in the same city also on election night 20 years before, in June 1997, when Tony Blair swept in...
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