Many people have filled out the lacuna in the story with conspiracies that merely expose their worst fears or indulge their imaginations, writes Eusebius.
We aren’t always satisfied with not knowing the facts. But instead of investigating, we sometimes fill the gaps in our knowledge with what we wish the facts to be rather than what they have been proven to be.
The government is constitutionally mandated to operate on the principle of collective Cabinet responsibility. In a time like Covid-19, when the clock is ticking and the pandemic is wreaking havoc, one might think it is particularly useful to have this principle in operation, because we cannot afford to be distracted by interesting and colourful public spats between Cabinet ministers when the burden of leadership right now is to make tough decisions under inherently suboptimal conditions and to run with them.
The claim that she was “emasculating” the president, as eNCA news anchor Jane Dutton put it, is not only a bizarre choice of misogynistic language . Her claim of an ambush is the more unlikely proposition in all the speculation of what happened and requires proof. What is also troubling about how this has played out is the disproportionate amount of criticism she got compared with that dealt out to Ramaphosa.
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