A Time Traveller's Guide to Our Next Ten Years. Frans Cronje

by recounting the train of events that brought the country to this point since PW Botha’s Rubicon speech in 1985. The only difference is that you would be writing this description the morning after the Rubicon speech – a decade before Mandela was inaugurated.

      To an extent, one is engaging in some kind of research-based time travel – hence the title of this book. When this is done effectively, it gives readers an almost magical sense of standing in that future and looking back at the present, with the highways behind them, and the road signs and markers showing them how they got here over time.

      Given this, we now need to get started with the actual scenario building process and determine whether South Africans are content with the status quo or whether there is growing demand for radical economic, social and political change. Should we uncover that South Africans are not satisfied with the current situation, we have to ask, what, if anything, they can do to bring about fundamental change in the country.