Heribert Adam reflects on anti-apartheid journalism and how ”multipliers of liberal opinion” such as journalist Gerald Shaw can inform and educate.
Policymakers can never fully control the outcome of their conscious choices because they inevitably act on incomplete information, personal bias and wishful thinking. A political intervention itself creates new conditions, the fallout of which is seldom anticipated. These unintended consequences comprise the irony of history, and recent Middle Eastern events serve as a good example, affecting each country in unforeseen ways.