Bill Harvey: Bringer of balance

It’s Tuesday morning, 11am, and I have just arrived back from South Africa, home of binocular balancing Humphriss.

The ruling party of government has clung on to power by exploiting their former popularity and some previous successes. Beneath the surface, it is now well-known that the government has misled the majority, and non-elected advisers and lobbyists hold sway to ensure their own self-interests. The result has been a dramatic increase in the divide between the very rich and the increasing numbers living beneath the poverty line. This has resulted in major deterioration in both health and education, and the impact on the environment is starting to become tangible. South Africa was quite similar.