The president is slowly but surely steering the country back to a path of growth and clean governance
There could not be a more important time to understand a man than when he is under scrutiny. The goodwill to embrace the stewardship of President Cyril Ramaphosa, contrasted with aspersions that he is weak and indecisive, is a reality that should be explained.
The other debate is that the president seems to prioritise the party at the expense of the country. This is untrue because no leader of a political party should be considered unpatriotic for simply advocating the policies of his or her party. The concern about the conflation of state and party has to do with the quality of governance. Accordingly, the president has been bold in confronting any matter that borders on party over-reach. The prestige of the ruling party is slowly being reclaimed.
Recently we have seen political decision-making anchored in the facts of science. This means transformational leaders cannot be anecdotal when it comes to technical skills and expertise. Equally, we were reminded of Peter Kropotkin’s challenge that lawyers should go beyond proving that a case is legally indisputable; they should also seek to understand what the real lives of ordinary poor people reveal.
When the people put leaders at the helm of the country through elections they are doing so hopeful that societal challenges will be resolved. SA’s socio-economic challenges are deep. Sometimes it is not success but the effort to resolve pressing matters that inspires a nation.
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