All post-election possibilities on who will govern from the Union Buildings is in the realm of the psychological not the psephological, writes the author. (Photo by Gallo Images/Lefty Shivambu)
The electoral uncertainty South Africa faces is good news for our democracy. But it’s unclear what that could mean for our economy and livelihoods after the smoke of the electoral battle ends and a new government emerges, writes Tony Leon.
After the fog of war lifted from the industrial-scale slaughter which characterised the killing fields of the First World War, which ended in 1918, a psychoanalyst offered an acute observation.
Sometimes, he suggested, the difference whether a soldier was awarded a medal for gallantry or was executed for cowardice, “depended in which direction the person ran after battlefield panic set in”.
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