Why the disagreeable RW Johnson will outlive his critics
Perhaps Bill’s most controversial books were the two bestsellers that asked How Long Will South Africa Survive?
Yet despite his academic credentials, and the fact that, at 52, he had readily surrendered tenure at one of the world’s elite universities, there was no place for a sharp-tongued, critically minded white man at any university in the new South Africa.
Bill and his wife, the historian Irina Filatova, had built a holiday home across the road from ours in Trafalgar, a little village on KwaZulu-Natal’s lush south coast.
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