Readers’ Views

Revolutionary gang of looters are no longer fit to govern

Mteto Nyati’s column “Everything but vision from Cyril” (November 11) refers. A divided house (or broad church) cannot adopt a unified vision.

The ANC alliance has lost its raison d’etre and besmirched any remnant of heroic stewardship.

They are just another revolutionary gang of looting, ill-disciplined and incapable cadres. They are not fit to govern.

Tim Bester, on businesslive

“President Cyril Ramaphosa inherited a burning platform ...” Wrong. Mr Ramaphosa actively and repeatedly, and in public, supported the wrecking ball that was Jacob Zuma.

He is responsible for much of the mess.

Derek Salzmann, on businesslive

Blame the staff

Health minister Aaron Motsoaledi has publicly defended his [health] plan as a good (if not perfect) one with the proviso that it is not his problem how to fund it, “Spending money we don’t have” (November 11).

It reflects in every aspect in his department and hospitals or clinics. On paper there are adequate services for everyone. If the doctors and nurses fail, it must be their fault.

JV SL, on businesslive

Not the last we see of Gigaba

Do not underestimate Malusi Gigaba. Away from under the ANC tent, he is capable of causing a lot of mischief — and he will in collaboration with the Zuma faction.

The sooner the Zuma boil is lanced, the better for stability and a return to good governance as promised by President Cyril Ramaphosa.

But I have my doubts about that being fulfilled.

Milner Erlank, on businesslive

It is time for the president to appoint the best ministers for the job, irrespective of their political affiliation. The current lack of talent and experience in the ANC is detrimental to the country.

Political affiliation should also play no role in the appointment of government officials. It should, in fact, be a crime to appoint someone based on political affiliation only.

Local authorities are staffed with useless officials who wear the right T-shirt, and voters have to deal with those people every day.

Pieter Joubert, on businesslive

One sincerely hopes for the country’s sake that educated and right-minded people who don’t have a whiff of scandal associated with them will be shuffled into place.

The country’s reputation right now is in the sewer, thanks to 10 years of grand-scale corruption and outright maladministration. We now need respectable, credible leadership to be set in place to clean out the muck.

LG G, on businesslive