ZILLE FINDING
TIM COHEN: Mkhwebane utterly lacks Madonsela’s common sense
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane lacks common sense, Zille finding shows
I attended the Small Business Initiative’s Cape Town outreach conference this week and the keynote speaker was Thuli Madonsela, who was impressive as always. The difference between her approach and that of her successor, Busisiwe Mkhwebane, is obvious, but hearing Madonsela speak made me think about the specifics of that difference. Madonsela captured things with great accuracy. She quoted former president Thabo Mbeki, saying that in February South Africans felt they were back on the "pedestal of hope". "Now here we are in June, asking, ‘who moved my cheese?’," Madonsela said. She answered her own question with issues that have brought SA back to reality — the land question, inequality, unemployment, — but she added a new aspect — social fracture. She said she couldn’t remember during the apartheid era anyone saying white people were the problem. White supremacy was then recognised as the problem. But never white people per se. She told the story of the king who gave his three poten...
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