When you hear the word corruption, what thoughts come to mind? What feelings come into your heart? What impact does corruption have on how you pray?
We know from our holy texts and from history books that corruption is not new in the human family. Here in the Cape, we have the history of slavery. Slavery was a legalised form of corruption. Power was used to enable the few to be enriched at the expense of the many. Apartheid was there to enable the few to get rich on the basis of colour. Again, it was legalised corruption. Hundreds of unjust laws applied only to people of colour. These were bad laws that were also immoral.
The money that was supposed to save lives and feed the starving was siphoned off and there was a feeding frenzy for “comrades”. With a State of National Disaster, our National Treasury removed more of the checks and balances that were already insufficient and provided an enabling environment to the looters.
We should not underestimate the role of conscience, that little voice that tells us what is right and what is wrong, the voice that became louder during the silent months of lockdown. I have no doubt that if we see Ramaphosa rapidly moving from verbalism to action in the fight against corruption, he will find the nation once more swinging behind him. One of the greatest bulwarks against corruption are people with moral integrity.
Which societies in the world are the least corrupt? Denmark and Sweden compete to be number one. I asked a South African friend living in Denmark why he thought Denmark was doing so well in relation to corruption. He spoke of the level of equality and how those who are more well off do not flaunt their wealth because their sense of self-worth does not come from what they have, but who they are.
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