JONNY STEINBERG: Songezo Zibi bent on restoring the dignity of leadership
The Rise Mzansi leader breathes fresh air into SA's moribund politics
12 January 2024 - 05:00
Rise Mzansi leader Songezo Zibi is with little doubt the most talented person to enter SA politics in the past decade. He combines three traits that together make him strikingly unusual.
The first is intellectual creativity. To listen to Zibi talk about public bureaucracies, about employment creation, about crime or foreign policy is to hear at work a mind genuinely at play. The second is charisma; he has a personal energy that draws people. When he speaks, you want to listen. The third is the most important of all: a distinctive account of what is wrong and how it might be put right. ..
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