One of the world’s most redundant political programmes has to be the Moral Regeneration Movement (MRM). It still exists, believe it or not. And it has done about as much for SA’s moral regeneration as Hlaudi Motsoeneng has done for the SABC’s reputation for service delivery excellence. Like all useless programmes, it has a useless website (Moral Regeneration Movement). The tab titled "Achievements" lists no achievements, but plenty of "challenges". The most serious of these, however, was best summarised by the MRM before the arts and culture portfolio committee in March last year. A cartoonish Power Point presentation justifying why it is necessary to "recapture the soul of the MRM" (presumably it has been "captured" like so much else in SA), says: "Attitude of political heads influence success or failure of the MRM in their area of jurisdiction — that reinforces the perception that MRM is a government programme. People critical of government or its public representatives lump MRM ...
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