Just an FYI: An Economist correspondent from New Zealand has been posting a daily diary from South Africa this week. He introduces himself:
JUST to clear up any misconceptions: I am not, and have never been, The Economist's South Africa correspondent. The extent to which I am not may soon become obvious: still, this point is best made at the outset, as someone else's reputation is at stake here.
Neither am I just a tourist, though: I'm here to carry out research on behalf of The Economist's guide to Johannesburg, which I have edited, from London, for a couple of years now. Past users may be relieved to know that I don't actually write the guide‚ the aforementioned correspondent takes that role. But that with which you work, it is perhaps wise to know, and if nothing else, my employer's august name tends to open doors that might otherwise stay shut.
There are a few useful insights, some views that an outsider probably finds insightful but are fairly banal, and some fairly jejune commentary, but the whole thing is worth a quick read as travelogue.