STEVEN FRIEDMAN: Let us control leaders, not wait for saints
It doesn’t take much to get the folks who pontificate in public to talk about "leadership". So it is no surprise that the Jacob Zuma presidency saga has the "l" word on all their lips again. The "l" talk focuses, of course, on Cyril Ramaphosa. Is he a weak or strong leader? Does he have the qualities to save us? Will he take us back to the days when the ANC and the country had wonderful leaders, until they evaporated and were replaced by the shoddy bunch we have now? So common is this talk — globally as well as here — that no one stops to think about what fretting about leadership means. It makes difficult problems go away by ducking them, not solving them, since it is not our job to fix them, it is the leader’s.
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