JONATHAN JANSEN | Let the Zuma judgment be the first of many to cancel corruption
Let it also be a lesson for children that impunity has no place in democracy, with accountability key to their futures
30 June 2021 - 19:32
South African schoolchildren learnt a big, new word on Tuesday: accountability. It means being responsible for your actions. It translates as aanspreelikheid in Afrikaans or ukumela in isiZulu and isiXhosa. The word seeps through every aspect of our culture from religion (“the wages of sin is death”) to everyday aphorisms (“spare the rod and spoil the child”)...
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