In this selection of his Business Day columns, Jonny Steinberg walks
through Pollsmoor Prison on the eve of the invasion of Iraq and
believes he sees in the jail's corridors why the US's impending war in
the Middle East will fail. He meets a poverty-stricken old man who
spends most of his state pension maintaining a black Mercedes Benz,
and explains why this shows that government's welfare programme is
working. He tells us why he thinks Thabo Mbeki is an Afro-pessismist
and why a South Africa ruled by Tokyo Sexwale will be as riddled with
corruption as Silvio Berlusconi's Italy. Steinberg has an eye for the
strangeness of our fractured country. For the last five years,
Steinberg has been recording the things he sees on his travels across
South Africa in his fortnightly column on Business Day's leader page.
Here are the best of those columns.
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ISBN
9781868424078
Publisert
2014
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Vendor
Jonathan Ball Publishers
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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