Of flags, flowers, fashion and flashlights

South Africa was in the international spotlight last weekend, with world leaders from all over the world attending the two-day Group of Twenty (G20) Leaders’ Summit in Johannesburg. Cameras flashed insistently, like lightning in a Highveld thunderstorm. Flashy motorcades rolled through the streets of Johannesburg, as if the ‘City of Gold’ had been transformed into a film set for a blockbuster movie. You could almost hear the soundtrack blurring as the sirens of the convoys cut