Whatever hopes we had of the President having our best interests at heart have entirely dissipated. Ours is a society in general teetering on the brink of social unrest and demagogues waiting in the wings.
it is the cliff, the gorge,shows too, the brilliance of its wound.Is it the babbling brook that is ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula or is it the presidential spokesperson trotted out at various intervals to provide us with anodyne updates?
This is ironic on several levels but especially so since Ramaphosa’s entire presidency has been a missed opportunity. A missed opportunity to stare down his corrupt party and create alliances across broader society to ensure that South Africa deals with its many crises with integrity. The reality, of course, is that no amount of Cabinet reshuffling will change the fact that it is the ANC itself which is unfit for purpose and Ramaphosa, entirely in its thrall, is now part and parcel of that dysfunction.
Last Friday, in what turned out to be one of his final acts as minister in the Presidency, Mondli Gungubele was tasked with briefing us on the state of disaster.Things fall apart as the hollow men and women lead us further into the dark voidWhat, one wondered, was the point? A disaster is exactly that and holds with it a need for the state to respond with urgency. Manifestly there is no urgency if the state of disaster was announced at Sona, yet a briefing happens almost a month later.
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