South Africa is only as strong as the leader it holds responsible

It is a week to go before the annual state of the nation address - and last year's occasion was dramatic, for all the wrong reasons. The rumbustious EFF had decided to use the parliamentary stage for a theatrical #PayBackTheMoney performance.While there was widespread condemnation of their actions, my sense was that, overall, the public was sympathetic to the EFF as it felt that our No1, President Jacob Zuma, was poised to get away with the extravagance and decay called Nkandla.