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Ramaphosa’s unbalanced assessment of Zweli Mkhize ‘an insult’ - Desperate to claw back the public’s trust, the president missteped and betrayed his own weak understanding of ethics and the meaning of leadership

, President Cyril Ramaphosa stood in front of the nation and promised that his government would “marshal our every resource and our every energy to fight this pandemic”.

Specifically, the report found that the minister directly pushed for R150-million worth of communications work to be awarded to the company in a “highly” irregular manner. Moreover, the department of health further incurred fruitless and wasteful expenditure amounting to approximately R80-million. Instead of an unequivocal condemnation of the actions of the minister, the president chose to offer up a balanced performance assessment, betraying his own weak understanding of ethics and the meaning of leadership. By uttering those words on a public platform, the president failed in his responsibility of leadership. And by barely reacting to this as the broader public, we are betraying the country through our own numbness.

That the minister felt he could do this and get away with it in a democratic country speaks volumes about just how confident he was that his actions would not result in any meaningful consequences. It speaks to just how bad things are in the ANC, when simply doing one’s job buys you a licence to plunder.

The president is a creature of the ANC, and being its president, the outrageous actions of its leaders cannot remain shocking. The president is only displaying the high levels of tolerance for unethical people that can only be expected from that political institution. If we are to protect and rebuild this democracy that was fought for with tears and blood, we cannot allow exhaustion from past outrage to dull our senses of what is right, what is wrong, and what is unethical. Not only should we not allow the president to convince us that there is a scenario here where ethics and job-performance can be considered as equals, we should shame him for lowering our public morals to that of the levels of his dying movement.

 

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Every corrupted are being treated with kid gloves while we're ordinary citizens faces the full migh of the law

Cyril is not clean too

As a former Treasurer General, Mkhize knows way too much to be thrown under the bus.

Ramaphosa has no Shame

He promised you to clean the country out of corruption but he is the most corrupt president ever in SA

His main objective was not to be objective on the matter of Dr Mkhize. He proved himself to be a hoax when it comes to ethical standards of leadership.

well written.

Weak understanding seems to be his trait. Is his judgment to dismantle the Ministry of State Security and relocate it to the “Presidency” not a typical unbalanced assessment of the role of Intelligence in a democratic dispensation? Who are the advisors of President Ramaphosa?

There is no understanding of Ethics and Meaning of Leadership in the ANC, Its all about covering each other skeletons!

State facts

The two complicit bullshitters , the one a novachoc expert as well !

equally dangerous , obviously they cover for each other like gang thugs.

Appreciation they say is an application for more. If I fall to acknowledge you Michael_Jeff_ it will shows how ungrateful I am. i am really grateful to a man who God has used in blessing me and my family in general, guaranteed,trade with him now and thank me later

DrZweliMkhize is a skelm. VoetsekANC

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