Cyril Ramaphosa is mute while SA burns
If President Cyril Ramaphosa is in the habit of listening to breakfast radio, he would not have enjoyed Bongani Bingwa’s show on 702 on Tuesday.
If there is any truth to the perception that we have a distant and detached president, a safe bet would be that he wasn’t listening and will probably be shocked to discover the extent to which, just four months after being returned to office, his presidency has lost its sense of momentum.
He was probably focusing on a stage where he feels most comfortable and putting the final touches to what he will tell delegates at the World Economic Forum (WEF) event that starts in Cape Town on Wednesday. If he noticed that the country is in flames he certainly didn’t feel moved to share that with his fellow citizens.
The WEF event, titled “Shaping Inclusive Growth and Shared Futures in the Fourth Industrial Revolution”, is an opportunity to showcase the country, not just as an investment destination but as the gateway to a continent whose time has come. Instead, the delegates arriving in Cape Town have been confronted by headlines that show a country at war; its leaders absent.
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