
The falling baby and the day of infamy
As spasms of anarchy shook the nation last week, futurist Clem Sunter declared South Africa to be a “50/50 call”. Nothing depicted the knife-edge quite as vividly as the video sequence of a toddler hurtling from a burning building. Below, frantic onlookers scrambled to catch her. Out of the picture, a woman screamed as one who had glimpsed our collective soul. Monday: A message from a friend I’d not heard from in months. “Are you okay?” Weird. No reason not to be. “For