ON THE WATER
NEELS BLOM: The wrecker of our water system now oversees air and soil
Former water and sanitation minister, then communications minister, and now minister of environmental affairs, Nomvula Mokonyane, is a mystery. What, in her wildest imagining, makes her think she is capable of the right thing? Yet she does, despite the possibility of perjurious oaths that surely should have occurred to her as she ascended a succession of high offices. The briefest of résumés of Mokoyane’s conduct as a minister reveals her, first, as a knowing and staunch supporter of Jacob Zuma, the president of state capture. This taint alone should rule her out as unfit for any work requiring honesty, integrity and competence. But no. Even the deeply compromised labour federation Cosatu, now less than party to a ruling triumvirate, has denounced her as corrupt, immensely incompetent and inexperienced, to quote a Business Day report. Among other charges, Mokonyane has been fingered by none less than that paragon of virtue and former public protector, Thuli Madonsela, as answerable ...
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