New book reflects on South African leadership, state of the nation

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The book, Opinion Pieces by South African Thought Leaders, published by Penguin and out this month, includes such topics as:

• Of Jacob, Julius, Jimmy and the dancing monkey -
  Max du Preez
  
• Toxic politics: Diary of a bad year - Njabulo Ndebele
  
• The South African nation - Neville Alexander
  
• Crime and policing: How we got it wrong - Antony Altbeker
  
• The judiciary and the Constitution - Carmel Rickard
  
• Environment and sustainability - Leonie Joubert
  
• Perspectives on poverty in a democratic South Africa - Len Verwey
  
• The state of the nation's health - Kerry Cullinan and Anso Thom
  
• Education - Eric Atmore, Dylan Wray and Gillian Godsell
  
• 'The content of their character' - Jonathan Jansen
  
• After Invictus: Thabo Mbeki and the breaking of the South African state - James Myburgh