While the President speaks to us in dulcet tones and promises to rebuild and while ANC cadres seek the troughs for their snouts, it will be up to South Africans to once again pick themselves up from this disaster and coordinate efforts quite separately ...
The latest Afrobarometer data provide the hard evidence we need. Afrobarometer found: “Trust in nearly all institutions is low – and declining.” It states that:
Only about one in three citizens trust the Electoral Commission of South Africa, with trust levels particularly low among younger respondents. Slightly more trust the Public Protector. The sad truth, therefore, is that those in government do not act in our best interests. After all, the premier of KZN, Sihle Zikalala, wasted precious time denying there was a disaster even as we watched large-scale rioting and looting on our television screens in July last year. Party before country always. Many in Ramaphosa’s government then watched in passivity as infrastructure burned.
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