The Café de Move-on Blues In Search of the New South Africa

Christopher Hope grew up in a South Africa defined by violence and racism, and he would later become one of the most trenchant critics of the apartheid government. Thirty years after he left to live in self-imposed exile in London, Hope returns for a road trip, longing to discover what became of the country of his birth. Instead of the promise of Nelson Mandela's vision, however, he finds a nation not of equality and democracy, but one in the iron grip of a corrupted ruling party; a place where racial divides and tensions are deeper than ever. As the old imperial idols of Cecil Rhodes and Paul Kruger are literally pulled from their pedestals in a collective yearning to destroy the past, and as any hope for the future is seemingly extinguished by political incompetence and malfeasance, Hope ponders the question : what next?"