Better Choices: Ensuring South Africa's Future is a collection by South Africa’s top thinkers on the political economy. A bleak picture currently exists of South Africa with state capture, failures of government institutions, loadshedding and more. In this book, the various thinkers outline exactly the solutions – the ‘better choices’– that need to be made by leadership to alter the country’s bleak trajectory. One of the editors of the book, Ray Hartley explains why the book is important.