LETTER: Ramaphosa should man up over policy failings
03 July 2022 - 18:24
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President Cyril Ramaphosa. Picture: JEFFREY ABRAHAMS/GALLO IMAGES
Cyril Ramaphosa’s failure to speak up in this latest crisis is astounding. Despite his well-known leadership failings, he is president of the country, and protocol and common decency demand that he take responsibility for his cabinet and its policy failings.
This latest round of load-shedding not only causes loss of lives, livelihoods and infrastructure, but triggers a wave of mass emigration of the skills our country so desperately needs. Skills do not distinguish by race, so the pain and damage caused won’t even further the president’s race project.
It is time for the president to swallow his pride and his ideology, and beg skilled young families to remain in SA. To give his speech some gravitas, he should commit SA to race-blind meritocracy and excellence, and fire the members of cabinet who cannot compete in such an environment.
Rolf Endres Craighall Park
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LETTER: Ramaphosa should man up over policy failings
Cyril Ramaphosa’s failure to speak up in this latest crisis is astounding. Despite his well-known leadership failings, he is president of the country, and protocol and common decency demand that he take responsibility for his cabinet and its policy failings.
This latest round of load-shedding not only causes loss of lives, livelihoods and infrastructure, but triggers a wave of mass emigration of the skills our country so desperately needs. Skills do not distinguish by race, so the pain and damage caused won’t even further the president’s race project.
It is time for the president to swallow his pride and his ideology, and beg skilled young families to remain in SA. To give his speech some gravitas, he should commit SA to race-blind meritocracy and excellence, and fire the members of cabinet who cannot compete in such an environment.
Rolf Endres
Craighall Park
JOIN THE DISCUSSION: Send us an email with your comments to letters@businesslive.co.za. Letters of more than 300 words will be edited for length. Anonymous correspondence will not be published. Writers should include a daytime telephone number.
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