{"product_id":"9781776190744","title":"Future Tense","description":"\u003cp\u003eFuture Tense analyses the squandered and corrupted years since Leon’s first award-winning biography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLeon, with unique access and penetrating insight, presents a portrait of today’s South Africa and prospective future, based on his vast political involvement with key power players. His intimate view of these presidents and their history-making, and his many worldly encounters, reflects on a country and planet in upheaval. Leon also provides an insider view for the first time of the power struggles within the official opposition party, which saw the exit of its first black leader in 2019.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWritten during the coronavirus lockdown, Future Tense also examines the surge of both the disease and the response, which has crashed the economy and its future prospects, as well as the rise of a dangerous Julius Malema-led populism, and how this echoes global discontent elsewhere. There is every reason to fear for the future of South Africa, but Leon advocates hope.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"JONATHAN BALL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39247103459443,"sku":"9781776190744","price":257.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/products\/71LswVk_iKL.jpg?v=1677655367","url":"https:\/\/readerswarehouse.us\/products\/9781776190744","provider":"Readers Warehouse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}