LETTER: The president must send corrupt comrades to prison
The time for useless commissions of inquiries and interministerial task teams is over
The old proverb “when the wicked rule, the people groan,” is increasingly proving true every day in President Cyril Ramaphosa’s administration. The time for talking and empty promises are over. Ramaphosa can no longer act shocked whenever he hears and knows about his own comrades and senior government officials who are allegedly involved in Covid-19 corruption.
The president’s own spokesperson, Khusela Diko, and her husband have been implicated in multimillion-rand Covid-19 corruption in Gauteng. The president needs to show leadership by decisively dealing with this cancer. The time for useless commissions of inquiries and interministerial task teams is over. South Africans want to see politicians, ministers and former ministers, MECs and their families who are stealing from the pandemic funds, sent to prison...
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