Less than 10 years ago, South Africa looked on the cusp of a glorious period. Instead it is in danger of throwing it all away through misstep after misstep, writess Kyran Fitzgerald.

A newborn was kidnapped from a Cape Town hospital in 1997 but her parents never gave up hope and now, 17 years later, they have found her.

LITTLE Nhlahla couldn’t have a more appropriate name. Meaning ‘luck’, Nhlahla was born this week after developing in her mother’s liver instead of in the womb.