Impunity has become almost commonplace. The culture of impunity thrives on opportunistic illogic, like swimming pools being turned into fire pools.
CEO of International Rescue and former British foreign secretaryhe changing balance of economic and political power in the world is geographic – with a shift from west to east – but it is also ideological.
South Africa is therefore not immune to these anti-democratic forces as we know only too well from the failed insurrection of July last year. Despite the week of chaos, violence and looting, no one has been meaningfully held to account. Our Parliament was razed and yet we can go no further than charging a mentally ill man for this act.
But the culture of impunity thrives on opportunistic illogic, like swimming pools being turned into fire pools. No one trusts the state to do much anymore and increasingly, few trust Ramaphosa. When former director-general of the State Security Agency , the notorious Arthur Fraser, laid a criminal complaint against Ramaphosa in June, the Pandora’s box was opened. The story is now well-known and relates to a robbery at the president’s Phala Phala farm in Limpopo in 2020. Ramaphosa and those affiliated to his “faction’’ within the ANC immediately cried foul. Weeks later and the questions persist.
Section 96 of the Constitution demands that members of the Cabinet act in accordance with a code of ethics set out by the act. As the president is the head of the Cabinet, he is also bound by the act and the code. However, it has long since been pointed out that the act and code require amendment as the act is silent about what should happen when the president is the subject of a complaint.
Speaking at Jessie Duarte’s funeral, former president Thabo Mbeki bemoaned Ramaphosa’s failure to forge the social compact he promised. But the hallmark of the Ramaphosa presidency has been the abject failure to draw South Africans into his vision and widen the embrace. Instead, he has obsessed only about internal party dynamics to the detriment of all else.
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