LETTER: The writing on a crumbling wall
ANC infighting is destroying the country as politicians do nothing but secure their own financial interests
The lasting impression I had listening to Jacob Zuma’s testimony at the state capture inquiry was that with all his concerns about assassination attempts and ANC spies, when did he have time to attend to affairs of state? Listening to the current crop of politicians and their constant fights with opponents in their own and other parties, I ask the same question.
The obvious and continuing decline of SA can, in so small part, be blamed on this infighting. It is a given that the rewards of power are mostly financial for the victors. It is clearly “me first, party second and country third” for most in the political space. The chronic state of Eskom, SAA, SABC, Prasa and many other state-owned enterprises stands testament to the obsession with rewarding political loyalty with positions the incumbents are wholly unqualified to manage...
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