So we stumble towards our vote of no confidence in the president, filled with righteous outrage at the large-scale theft of national assets by a leadership without moral compass. I am no apologist for Jacob Zuma, nor any politician who places their narrow self-interest ahead of the people they govern. What moral foundation was the basis of Vladimir Putin or Donald Trump’s wealth? The answer to that question ought to alert us to the moral context we’ve created in our society. We are in awe — not moral outrage — at the transfer fee of more than R3bn paid by Paris Saint-Germain for footballer Neymar. Never mind a nearly R1bn signing-on fee to secure his "heart" and nearly R10m to take home every week, paid by Qatari masters more aware of the true location of Neymar’s heart. How much of that will find its way home to help the desperately poor in Brazilian favelas? Paris Saint-Germain’s Qatari owners, scrambling to account for the business sense attached to this deal, talk of "merchandis...
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