LETTER: Pompous Pandor throwing stones

The elevated degree of moral certitude and pompous verbosity of international relations & co-operation minister Naledi Pandor is becoming unbearable.

She is so convinced of her international stature that she takes every opportunity to arrogantly lecture world leaders and their governments on how they should conduct their international and domestic affairs.

Like her president, she exhibits a blissful ignorance of, and is apparently unconcerned by, the shameful reality that she and her cabinet colleagues represent a country that is riddled with horrendous crime, unabated corruption, a rapidly collapsing economy and a huge number of homeless, jobless citizens who are deprived of basic services.

While she pontificates to the global community about the application of the rule of law, civil and human rights, personal and governmental accountability and high moral standards, she seems unaware that her own ANC-led country displays a glaring lack of those values. SA sets no credible example.

Pandor and her president are devoid of international credibility and have no basis to present themselves as international problem solvers or mediators. Her interventions in the realm of international diplomacy bring to mind the pertinent warning that “people who live in glass houses should not throw stones”.

David Gant
Kenilworth

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