WORLDVIEW: SA doesn’t have a monopoly over the leadership crisis – just look north

The UK is South Africa's biggest trading partner and home to the greatest concentration of its expats – the country's 10th Province. So its connections with SA are both close and important especially after last week's shock election result has made the terms of Brexit even more difficult to call. In today's contribution, Quentin Wray offers some insights into a leadership crisis that has infected the world – not just South Africa.

Quentin writes: "I've lived in the UK for three years now and have already been through two general elections and a referendum. I'm an unapologetic political junkie, but even I've got sick of not knowing what I'll be waking up to the day after the polls. Because the UK is a global financial capital and the world's fifth biggest economy (at least until the monumental cock up that is Brexit starts giving sterling a proper pounding) this is not just a parochial problem, but a global one.

Brexit and, by extension, the latest UK election is going to have a particularly profound impact on South Africa, given that our economy, which is in such deep trouble anyway, is so reliant on our free trade agreement with the EU and capital flows and trade from the UK. Any prolonged conflict between them will not be at all good for us.

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