Quote of the day
Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare;
And left the flushed print in a poppy there:
Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came,
And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping flame.
R. W. Johnson

Born: 1943 (age 83)
Bio: R. W. Johnson is a British journalist, political scientist, and historian who lives in South Africa. Born in England, he was educated at Natal University and Oxford University, as a Rhodes Scholar.
Known for:
- How Long Will South Africa Survive (1977)
- South Africa's brave new world (2009)
- South Africa: the first man, the last nation (2004)
- Politics of Recession (1985)
- The long march of the French left (1981)






