Presidential wrecking ball

Anyone who believes the South African Reserve Bank is sacrosanct underestimates our wrecking ball of a president: the harm he has done to innumerable institutions, state-owned enterprises and all the people of this country by abusing his oath of office and powers of appointment — by inserting crooked or incompetent but compliant people at the top — greatly outweighs the very large amount of money the Zuptas appear to have stolen.

So far nothing has succeeded in stopping him. Pravin Gordhan is as upright a patriot as we have and it is only months since he was due to be arrested over the whole fake business of the “illegal” division of the revenue service, which one way or another disposed of many of its best employees in the Zupta determination to access the Treasury.

No doubt the Bank governor has clauses in his contract that would allow it to be terminated in the event of some misdemeanour and Zuma, that master of subversion, is certainly not above getting similar fake stories out to the public, winding up the ignorant and creating spurious grounds for replacing him.

In the recent ANC conference I heard nothing addressing Zuma’s daily oath breaking and his total moral and ethical delinquency. No wonder the ANC elders were not prepared to take part, since this could be used to appear to condone his actions.

Matters that in any country with a responsible government would see him “hung, drawn and quartered before breakfast” seem to just be accepted.

I will only believe we have a future when Zuma is gone and his replacement starts turning all these abuses around and actually doing his duty for this country.

Roger Briggs Edenvale