Sello Hatang | We need a president who is fully present and as clear as a bell on what the task at hand is. We need a state and a government doing routinely that which at present they seem to be willing to do only when the chips are down
It is all too easy to be distracted by the debates over the success or otherwise of the March 20 national shutdown, become intrigued by the images and the meanings of Julius Malema and Carl Niehaus marching shoulder to shoulder, reflect on the racialised patterns of opening and closing, emerging and retreating.
We can. But too often we choose not to. We are not a broken state, yet. Routinely now, gangster formations join hands with the corrupted to loot and to unravel and to paralyse. In July 2021 we saw what amounted to an insurrection in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng and yet still no one has been prosecuted for their role in it.
If this historical moment in our country has any meaning, then it is this, for far too long, we have lingered; for too long, we have waited for moments of crisis before acting decisively. For too long, it has taken extraordinary challenges to stir us into what is regarded as ordinary action in mature democracies. The time for focused and sustained endeavour is now.
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