Two men in Doha overthrew their own family members to sit on a throne built on sand and gas. Now that throne is about to be tested by the biggest geopolitical shake-up in the Middle East since the Soviet Union collapsed, and South Africans have more riding on the outcome than they might think, writes Albertus van Wyk.
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