Peter Bruce’s imploration to our president to take charge is pitiful and ignores the reality that besets the presidency and the party he leads – they are all complicit in the systemic corruption of the Zuma era, which strangled the economy (Take charge, Mr President, and do it now, September 5). To expect Cyril Ramaphosa to become the saviour and sweep away the deep state is unhistorical and without any precedent. British prime minister Jim Callaghan, who Bruce quotes, was the last of those technocratic Labour Party breed who had a belief, quite misguidedly, that the reliable English bureaucracy that resided in those imperial offices on Whitehall could somehow come up with solutions to the crisis that engulfed Britain. In SA we don’t even have a functional civil service that can turn the wheels to prosperity. To make it worse, we don’t have a Margaret Thatcher, who had the vision and obstinacy to deliver the bitter medicine Britain required. Our official opposition under Mmusi Maima...
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