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.

Police in Johannesburg detonated stun grenades and fired water canon at hundreds of stone-throwing members of the ruling party’s youth league today as its leaders were brought before a disciplinary committee.

Police say that the death toll from attacks on foreigners that spread across South Africa over the past three weeks has risen to 62.