ANC’s mantra of 'collective responsibility' is to pass the buck | Independent on Saturday

As popular idiom has it, “success has many fathers, failure is an orphan”. Or, as some would have it, That’s the latest refrain from within President Cyril Ramaphosa’s administration, presumably because blaming everything on apartheid is beginning to wear thin.

The ANC has for a while been casting about for a more persuasive target than the 1652 arrival of Jan van Riebeeck. It seems that the preferred solution is to spread the blame more evenly and more widely than just targeting whities. Niftiest of all, if it works, is that it would mean ordinary citizens would voluntarily be taking on the crippling responsibilities that their leaders are shrugging off.

Fikile Mbalula - who variously styles himself on social media as Mr Fix, Mr FearF*** All and Razzmatazz, while publishing a daily stream of selfies - is very keen on collective guilt, um, responsibility. One of the loads that Mbalula would like to drop is culpability for the failure of his government to control the lawless minibus taxi sector. Last week, outlining what’s to be done about the festive season’s road carnage, he said, “We must all appreciate that safety on our roads is a collective responsibility that we must all shoulder.”

Quite agree. That's why corrupt individuals get away with their criminal acts its just that the collective itself is criminal. An excuse. 'The collective made me do it' What utter bullshit.

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