South Africa today
South African writers take stock of their country as it prepares to
host the World Cup
Margie Orford: 'Working with these men helped me understand why South Africa is so violent'
'I received a phone threat and knew writers were not as free as I'd thought'
Albie Sachs: 'The fact that South Africa is a country at all is one of the greatest stories of our time'
Rian Malan: 'Every day brings momentous exhilarations and dumbfounding setbacks'
Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom: 'It's fantasy to believe the World Cup will help reduce poverty in South Africa'
André Brink: 'I worry that visitors will ask how successful this democracy is'
Gillian Slovo: 'Nelson Mandela came to Britain in 1996 as a testimony to courage: Jacob Zuma was here to inaugurate a brand'
