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R.W. Johnson

R.W. Johnson, an emeritus fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, lives in Cape Town, where he is completing a book on South Africa since the advent of democracy.

From the London Review dated 10 May 2001

Diary

Finding out too late that what was marked as a main A route was in fact a dirt road – this can happen only too easily in Zimbabwe, where the roads have decayed along with everything else – I continued grimly across increasingly rough terrain until I heard a stone fly up against the underneath of the car. The power cut off that instant. As I learned much later, the impact had damaged the fuel pump and the electronics within it, shorting out the ignition fuses. [ read more . . . ]

Selected bibliography

  • South Africa: The First Man, the Last Nation (2004)
  • Heroes and Villains: Selected Essays (1990)

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