BOARDROOM TAILS: Why are we not frightened?
Should we be worried that we’re not more worried about the state of our nation? Useful initiatives can result when people are worried
The streets of Cape Town were eerily calm last Friday morning. Or at least it felt eerie to someone who had watched snippets of the previous evening’s news, dominated by the chaos during President Jacob Zuma’s state of the nation address. Tentatively turning each corner I could find no evidence of the violence that had spread out from parliament. Instead, I saw people intent on getting to work and the usual sprinkling of tourists soaking in a beautiful day on the southern tip of Africa. If anyone thought about the previous night’s events they seemed not to care. Though I was relieved not to be confronted by evidence of the chaos, the calm was disconcerting. Rather like bumping into someone who was fall-down drunk hours earlier and is now utterly composed and without the hint of a hangover. It seemed unnatural. It wasn’t just the streets of Cape Town that shrugged off the Sona events. As the rand held reasonably stable and the JSE firmed during the day, it was apparent the investment...
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