Monday 29th September. Cape Town.

Another week. Another Sunday night. Another president. This week we were addressed on TV again by the new president of South Africa – Kgalema Motlanthe. Very reconciliatory, very dignified.

Monday 22nd September. Cape Town.

It’s been an interesting weekend, politically speaking, in South Africa. I had been away travelling for a week and came back on Saturday to find out that the President of South Africa - Thabo Mbeki - had been deposed. He had been ‘asked’ by the ANC to resign. He did.

What a weekend for South African politics! Not since 1994, has South Africa had such an abrupt change in leadership. Just having to deal with the global financial meltdown might have been enough for most developing countries, but South Africa's ruling party has increased uncertainty by dropping a political bombshell on an already fragile arrangement.