This is an edited version of author Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela’s article in the Mail & Guardian, 24 to 29 April 2009.
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.A large campaign poster for the ruling ANC, covers the side of a building April 18, 2009 in downtown Johannesburg, South Africa. here have been moments when our leaders have faced challenges that have called on them to lead with moral vision.
At a time when we need leaders who will be moral role models for the next generation of leaders, one wonders what the future holds when our president’s strength of popularity is not matched by the strength of his reputation for moral stature. How will he speak with authority on matters of corruption?
It is this “enemy” language aimed at silencing questions voiced by concerned citizens that concerns me. How quickly we backslide. Under the apartheid government the voice of dissent was silenced. Courageous people, among them Archbishop Tutu, were unstoppable. Times change; it is now 2009. A black government led by people who fought fearlessly against apartheid is in power. Yet somehow things stay the same. Today Tutu is demonised and portrayed as part of a “lynch mob” unleased to destroy Zuma.
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