The ANC-led government has now loaded the final straw onto the SA nation’s back. The dilatory and careless approach to the acquisition and distribution of Covid-19 vaccines is akin to Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma’s notion of wanton class suicide, except for the fact that it is the whole of our society — black, white, coloured and Indian — that will suffer increased physical, mental and economic hardship and further avoidable deaths. None more so than the poorest and most wretched of our people.

We are now very close to becoming a failed state, with virtually every government minister and department unable to competently and responsibly perform the functions for which they were appointed. The Zondo commission is making it increasingly clear that the rot within government is as deep as it is wide...

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