The absence of intellectual fibre in the ANC’s cadre-deployment diet has reached dangerous levels.
It negatively affects every department, state-owned entity, and government agency with the possible exceptions of the Revenue Service and the Treasury. The chapter nine institutions, particularly, have been so starved of cerebral nourishment through the appointment of ANC apparatchiks that they have long lost any credibility they might have had.
This week’s release of findings into what is euphemistically called the 2021 “unrest” in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng confirms that erosion. The reports by the Human Rights Commission (HRC) and the Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Rights Commission (CRL) demonstrate that what