It’s time to d itch the ‘family meeting’, Mr President

ALL the platitudes about being science-led, all the clichés about obtaining a balance between lives and livelihoods, all the lockdowns, all the president’s mournful “fellow South Africans” exhortations, all the follow-up ministerial briefings and all the glittering PowerPoint vaccine roll-out strategy presentations will come to nought; if President Cyril Ramaphosa and his Cabinet do not craft a dynamic, responsive and robust communication strategy, urgently.

Until now the government appears to be stuck on an