LETTER: Real reason behind state collapse
Ramaphosa needs to be grilled on the reasons for the disastrous state of most SOEs
President Cyril Ramaphosa admitted before the Zondo commission that mistakes were made in the deployment of top management to the state-owned enterprises (SOEs). He conceded that state capture was real and damaging, and should have been faced earlier. He praised the press for their patriotic role in exposing the rot.
I hope that in his second tranche of evidence, in his capacity as SA president, Ramaphosa will be quizzed on the reasons for the disastrous state of most SOEs. Was it state capture (the Guptas); was it cadre deployment gone wrong; or — bitter pill to swallow — was it simply that affirmation action was instituted too soon and too fast?..
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