Political leaders must be held accountable for their many self-inflicted failures

The destruction of SA’s infrastructure and state-owned enterprises is largely due to government graft and ineptitude, not to mention a welter of irrational policies

04 August 2024 - 00:00

It is critical that South Africans do not celebrate instances where self-inflicted failures by the government and political leaders are rectified. We should rather hold them accountable for causing failure in the first place and demand excellence instead...

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