Business leaders must take blame for President Cyril Ramaphosa’s persisting ineptitude.
That was perhaps the business community’s biggest act of accountability over the executive that we have witnessed during our democratic dispensation. SA’s business community had never been so united in a single action. They had to build such tough solidarity within a matter of hours because they realised that the already brittle economy was on the brink of total collapse.
Ramaphosa promised all sorts of reforms and growth, much of which is yet to be seen. Perhaps Ramaphosa had all the intention of growing and reforming the economy but Covid-19 was a spanner in his yet-to-be-seen reformist works: I’m assuming the best case scenario here. Then came the week of brutal reckoning that we are currently experiencing. The 100-large contingent of CEOs that summoned Zuma to an urgent meeting to address the Nene firing seemingly couldn’t do the same this time around when Ramaphosa’s political ineptitude and vacuous leadership took the country to the brink of shattering.
They would not have allowed Zuma to go an entire month without appointing a health minister in the middle of a devastating and brutal pandemic, and right in the middle of our deadliest wave, while letting the minister responsible for rescuing the tourism industry act in that position.
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The media too wants to give him a free pass