LETTER: Lest SA forgets, so-called ideal states are riddled with poor governance and corruption
Good governance and fighting graft are hardly 'normal' in the UK, US, France and Italy
In another of Gareth van Onselen’s relentless attacks on President Ramaphosa (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/columnists/2019-07-03-gareth-van-onselen-the-three-presidencies-of-cyril-ramaphosa/), he complains: “Ramaphosa is committed to good governance and fighting corruption than not, but, as ever, such things are what you would call ‘normality’ in a healthy, constitutional democracy … [but Ramaphosa] has no defining worldview and certainly no grand vision ... his is a piecemeal and and entirely pragmatic presidency ... Progress, such as it is, is incremental and his administration a one step forward, one step back kind of affair ... [not] meaningful reform”.
In what world is Van Onselen living? As a well-informed analyst, he must know that good governance and fighting corruption are hardly “normal” in his presumably ideal societies of the UK, US, France and Italy. Indeed they are riddled with corruption, misgovernance, deep (now growing) inequality, and disastrous ...
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