We keep producing leaders who do not grow up. They become senior in their parties and in government but they remain the children they were when they entered politics. Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams is that person, writes Mondli Makhanya
The cries were understandable.
There was hope that Ramaphosa – who put Mokonyane in the chair in the compromise Cabinet of February 2018 – would treat this portfolio with more seriousness than his predecessor when he fully took on the presidency on his own elected mandate in May 2019. Back in the early years of the Zuma presidency, Ndabeni-Abrahams fell out with the mutinous ANC Youth League leadership under Julius Malema.
Even as the dirtiness of the president of the country and governing party unfolded, she was one of those who stood firmly by him – for obvious career reasons. She calculated well and threw herself into the CR17 campaign, campaigning tirelessly for the man who would the following year become president of the republic.
Those who were sympathetic or gave her the benefit of the doubt pointed out that she had begun to mature and become more measured.What this missed was who she had been an understudy to and what bad habits she might have picked up from those elements.The screaming Ndabeni-Abrahams came out, now emboldened by the massive power she had acquired.
We keep producing leaders who do not grow up. They become senior in their parties and in government but they remain the children they were when they entered politics.
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