ON THE WATER: Our feeble bleating about ANC thievery will not stop the rot
The longer we complain ineffectually without acting, the more complicit we become in corruption, writes Neels Blom
It is alarming that South Africans’ best response to corruption, state capture and maladministration by the ANC government is to bleat timidly that something must be done. In saying so, we believe we have taken a stand and, in having thus supposedly condemned the government’s unspeakable atrocities, proclaim that our work here is done. Really? How has that worked for the country? We have bleated for decades and now even those in the ANC who have been implicated in some of the worst of the crimes have joined the chorus, notably accused-in-chief President Jacob Zuma. Consider the president’s hypocritical ejaculation in his January 8 address, in which he acknowledges that corruption is a problem and urges public servants to "live a life of humility, integrity and selfless service to the people". The US’s top buffoon, President Donald Trump, could not have done a better job of presenting an alternative truth. In a report by Bloomberg writers Mike Cohen and Sam Mkokeli (carried by Busine...
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