Editorial | The Covid-19 crisis has taught South Africans one thing: We do have good leaders.
There was much the Mandela government felt short on, the Mbeki government messed up, the caretaker Motlanthe administration decided on and the calamitous Zuma government buggered up.
But when the government does right and fulfils its obligations to citizens, we should acknowledge it. We might believe it is what ministers and public servants are paid to do anyway and that it is not necessary to praise a fish for swimming. But that would amount to being mean with praise. The government’s handling of the Covid-19 coronavirus is a case in point. When the global outbreak was making its way to our shores we feared the worst, given our government’s less than illustrous record in dealing with day-to-day governance. As we saw numbers rise in highly advanced countries, there were doomsday fears about how ready our country was to deal with what was turning out to be one of the worst catastrophes in modern time.
Our fears were exacerbated by the recognition of the dire socioeconomic circumstances of the majority, which could only make the challenge greater.
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