R W Johnson

R. W. Johnson was for twenty years a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. Since 1995, he been Director of the Helen Suzman Foundation in Johannesburg. He is the author of many books, including the surprise best seller How Long Will South Africa Survive? (Macmillan, 1977). He is also the co-author of the classic, Launching Democracy: South Africa's first Open Election, April 1994 (Yale). Johnson has established a large reputation as a writer on southern African affairs, an essayist and as an original, independent and controversial analyst and has, for many years, written on African issues for The Times, the Sunday Times, the London Review of Books and others.