Ramaphosa’s unbalanced assessment of Zweli Mkhize ‘an insult’ - Desperate to claw back the public’s trust, the president missteped and betrayed his own weak understanding of ethics and the meaning of leadership
, President Cyril Ramaphosa stood in front of the nation and promised that his government would “marshal our every resource and our every energy to fight this pandemic”.
Specifically, the report found that the minister directly pushed for R150-million worth of communications work to be awarded to the company in a “highly” irregular manner. Moreover, the department of health further incurred fruitless and wasteful expenditure amounting to approximately R80-million. Instead of an unequivocal condemnation of the actions of the minister, the president chose to offer up a balanced performance assessment, betraying his own weak understanding of ethics and the meaning of leadership. By uttering those words on a public platform, the president failed in his responsibility of leadership. And by barely reacting to this as the broader public, we are betraying the country through our own numbness.
That the minister felt he could do this and get away with it in a democratic country speaks volumes about just how confident he was that his actions would not result in any meaningful consequences. It speaks to just how bad things are in the ANC, when simply doing one’s job buys you a licence to plunder.
The president is a creature of the ANC, and being its president, the outrageous actions of its leaders cannot remain shocking. The president is only displaying the high levels of tolerance for unethical people that can only be expected from that political institution. If we are to protect and rebuild this democracy that was fought for with tears and blood, we cannot allow exhaustion from past outrage to dull our senses of what is right, what is wrong, and what is unethical. Not only should we not allow the president to convince us that there is a scenario here where ethics and job-performance can be considered as equals, we should shame him for lowering our public morals to that of the levels of his dying movement.
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