What sets good and bad leaders apart in the coronavirus era
Ramaphosa’s good leadership has been undermined by a paternalistic attitude to people’s needs and seeming deference to SA’s powerful religious lobby
08 June 2020 - 06:00
Crises bring out the best and worst of politicians and populations. Folly, fear and fortitude are on display everywhere. In the main, democracies have fared better than nondemocracies in handling the coronavirus pandemic.
But the record is very varied indeed. What explains this? What can be done about it?..
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