ROB ROSE: ‘Politicians, where are you now?’
For years, SA’s politicians have squandered the country’s resources and, while Covid-19 has laid bare just how ill-equipped they are to actually provide any real service, South Africans are now sick of it
06 July 2020 - 06:00
Last week, as he walked into his office, venture capitalist Vusi Thembekwayo saw a tweet from some politician floating the idea that SA should go back into a strict lockdown.
“It infuriated me. I mean, we knew the rise in infections was coming — that’s precisely why we went into lockdown in the first place. So what did they do during this time?” he says...
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