DA chief whip Natasha Mazzone has denied lying about her qualifications. (Jan Gerber/News24)
David Gant writes that revelations about the deliberate or inadvertent misleading about educational levels, within the public and private sector, is an example of how personal ambition and greed is getting in the way of integrity and loyalty.
In our environment of disease, wretched poverty, criminality, corruption and mass unemployment, it is particularly galling to observe leading politicians from the current and former ranks of the DA and the ANC indulging in doublespeak, backstabbing, insensitive tweets and statements and seemingly at odds with one another on internal party matters and even policy issues.
President Cyril Ramaphosa. (GCIS)
David Gant writes that President Cyril Ramaphosa needs to commit himself and his party to upholding the rule of law when he does his State of the Nation Address on Thursday.
Just as US President Joe Biden has declined to embroil himself in the quagmire of Donald Trump s impeachment trial, so should President Cyril Ramaphosa likewise stay away from getting personally involved in former president Jacob Zuma s disgraceful machinations to avoid appearing at the Zondo commission.
If he is still the President at the time of the final Zondo report, he will have the responsibility of implementing its recommendations and as such he should avoid any possible perception of bias at any stage of the proceedings.