Zuma’s first term as president has been a disaster.
Watching the decline of our brave new SA during his three-and-a-half years at the helm has been heartbreaking. He has shown himself to be a flawed personality and an inept leader.
On his watch, the ANC has sunk from being an iconic liberation movement admired the world over to a faction-riven shadow of its former self, while his government has declined into an incompetent, ideologically confused and morally corrupt kleptocracy.
Zuma has presided over a widening wealth gap, a dysfunctional education system, a chronic shortage of skills, a potentially explosive level of unemployment, a disintegrating public health system, service delivery failures across the board, a confused foreign policy, and a declining national economy that has been crippled by a negative attitude towards the private sector to the point where a major rating agency has now downgraded it together with some of our most crucial parastatals.
Worst of all, Zuma has revealed an alarming misconception of the meaning of democracy, as well as an inadequate understanding of, or even respect for, the constitution he is sworn to uphold. He has said on several occasions that the constitution should not be able to frustrate the will of the majority in Parliament, which of course is precisely what a democratic constitution must do if the government violates the founding law of the country.
via www.bdlive.co.za
When the man on top is useless and has a deep desire to drain the economy of its life - it comes as no surprise that the ministers in his cabinet are going to follow suit.
I agree with everything you have written. The issue though is "what is the solution? Indeed does one exist?" It is a vital question that everyone of us needs to come to a conclusion upon. It determines what we do with the rest of our lives.
Posted by: Richard Ferrer | October 11, 2012 at 11:19 AM