Learn from Zim, Cyril
SA is the envy of many countries in Africa, with excellent infrastructure.
I am very disappointed that this beautiful and prosperous country is being ruined. South Africans should learn from the catastrophic failures of the Zimbabwean government. We do not want to South Africans crossing rivers with crocodiles, going to other countries looking for better opportunities like what happened to Zimbabweans.
President Cyril Ramaphosa should not be like the clueless and careless president Emmerson Mnangagwa, who failed to turn Zimbabwe into a prosperous and democratic country after ousting former president Robert Mugabe. — Beverley Tsitsi Mutandiro, Zimbabwean Human Rights Activist
A role model
Monwabisi Landzana "Landz" Kana, who was lay to rest recently, was born and raised in an Eastern Cape township environment, both eMaxambeni and Mdantsane.
He was a brilliant student, a businessman, a freedom fighter and a boxer, one of the people who founded the United Boxing Club, which was the first boxing club in Mdantsane.
He turned professional in the late 1970s. He was a role model in this great township. His boxing career motivated many young people to join this sport. It was good to see people from Duncan Village and further afield at his funeral. Like Tsolo, Thulandivile, eMaxambeni, Ndede and Gomoro.
— Mzwandile Mqotyana, Mdantsane
Have that trial
Whether former president Jacob Zuma is guilty or not is neither here nor there. The fact will always remain that President Cyril Ramaphosa was part of the ANC collective which groomed and propelled Zuma as an untouchable corruption-accused president of the ANC and SA, and insulted, in the process, all the efforts to respect the law, as well as the integrity and moral standing of former president Thabo Mbeki.
As a matter of fact, when Mbeki recalled Zuma in 2005, the constitution which explicitly empowered him to do so was disregarded by the “collective” and the masses who were recruited to support a so-called revolution.
Nonetheless, the recent protests and lootings prove that being a darling of the media does not necessarily make you a darling of the masses.
This is a lesson Ramaphosa should learn before it is too late.
What we should not do is condemn Zuma, with or without a conviction and prison sentence, for the sake of Ramaphosa and an unrepentant ANC.
The only fair, just and acceptable thing is, when Zuma is released, that for him to then collectively be brought to trial for corruption alongside all the other leaders who were on record as supporting him and assisting him.
— Khotso KD Moleko, via email
LETTERS | Learn from Zim, Cyril
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Learn from Zim, Cyril
SA is the envy of many countries in Africa, with excellent infrastructure.
I am very disappointed that this beautiful and prosperous country is being ruined. South Africans should learn from the catastrophic failures of the Zimbabwean government. We do not want to South Africans crossing rivers with crocodiles, going to other countries looking for better opportunities like what happened to Zimbabweans.
President Cyril Ramaphosa should not be like the clueless and careless president Emmerson Mnangagwa, who failed to turn Zimbabwe into a prosperous and democratic country after ousting former president Robert Mugabe. — Beverley Tsitsi Mutandiro, Zimbabwean Human Rights Activist
A role model
Monwabisi Landzana "Landz" Kana, who was lay to rest recently, was born and raised in an Eastern Cape township environment, both eMaxambeni and Mdantsane.
He was a brilliant student, a businessman, a freedom fighter and a boxer, one of the people who founded the United Boxing Club, which was the first boxing club in Mdantsane.
He turned professional in the late 1970s. He was a role model in this great township. His boxing career motivated many young people to join this sport. It was good to see people from Duncan Village and further afield at his funeral. Like Tsolo, Thulandivile, eMaxambeni, Ndede and Gomoro.
— Mzwandile Mqotyana, Mdantsane
Have that trial
Whether former president Jacob Zuma is guilty or not is neither here nor there. The fact will always remain that President Cyril Ramaphosa was part of the ANC collective which groomed and propelled Zuma as an untouchable corruption-accused president of the ANC and SA, and insulted, in the process, all the efforts to respect the law, as well as the integrity and moral standing of former president Thabo Mbeki.
As a matter of fact, when Mbeki recalled Zuma in 2005, the constitution which explicitly empowered him to do so was disregarded by the “collective” and the masses who were recruited to support a so-called revolution.
Nonetheless, the recent protests and lootings prove that being a darling of the media does not necessarily make you a darling of the masses.
This is a lesson Ramaphosa should learn before it is too late.
What we should not do is condemn Zuma, with or without a conviction and prison sentence, for the sake of Ramaphosa and an unrepentant ANC.
The only fair, just and acceptable thing is, when Zuma is released, that for him to then collectively be brought to trial for corruption alongside all the other leaders who were on record as supporting him and assisting him.
— Khotso KD Moleko, via email
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