Future Tense
Reflections on My Troubled Land
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Future Tense
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Narrated by:
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Charl van Heyningen
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Written by:
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Tony Leon
About this listen
In his riveting new book, Future Tense, Tony Leon captures and analyses recent South African history, with a focus on the squandered and corrupted years of the past decade. With unique access and penetrating insight, Leon presents a portrait of today’s South Africa and prospects for its future, based on his political involvement over thirty years with the key power players: Cyril Ramaphosa, Jacob Zuma, Thabo Mbeki, Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk. His close-up and personal view of these presidents and their history-making, and many encounters in the wider world, adds vivid color of a country and planet in upheaval.
Written during the first coronavirus lockdown, Future Tense examines the surge of the disease and the response, both of which have crashed the economy and its future prospects.
As the founding leader of the Democratic Alliance, Leon also provides an insider view for the first time of the power struggles within that party, which saw the exit of its first black leader in 2019.
There is every reason to fear for the future of South Africa but, as Leon argues, ‘the hope for a better country remains an improbable, but not an impossible, dream’.
©2021 Tony Leon (P)2023 Jonathan Ball PublishersWhat the critics say
"Anyone who wants to understand South Africa today – a country so beautiful, yet so broken–simply has to read this book." (Niall Ferguson, author of The Ascent of Money)