Zuma’s actions reduce SA rainbow to tatters

TREVOR Manuel shared the finance ministry with Derek Keys for the first two years of President Nelson Mandela’s term, and was shown how to conduct our affairs at the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

The first time he went alone, the rand fell each time he questioned the “market place” from Washington, New York and London to Paris.

He did a course in finance and became an excellent finance minister.

Malusi Gigaba appears to be influenced by a companion with possibly a communist agenda.

The first time he spoke, the second downgrade came the next day.

Jacob Zuma did an excellent thing by appointing Cyril Ramaphosa to develop the National Development Plan which would make South Africa the best African country by 2030.

This was done with a group of leading industrialists, manufacturers, miners, bankers and trade unions.

This was then swept under the carpet and now a vague “radical economic development” product has been sucked out of Zuma’s thumb.

It appears he wants to take some radical ideas from Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and EFF leader Julius Malema to get support from the unemployed, but it will lose and not create jobs.

Zuma’s actions have resulted in so much money being spent on legal costs in his own cases and when bad leaders of section nine institutions and other of his appointments get fired after court cases. Millions of rand get wasted. Mandela came to power with radical ideas, but soon saw realities and united the country as a rainbow nation. World leaders, princes, presidents and kings came to both his inauguration and his funeral.

Only leaders of neighbouring states came to the inauguration of the next two presidents.

Thabo Mbeki’s policies led to many thousands dying as a result of his ideas on HIV.

He was always trying to solve Africa’s problems.

Was he trying to get the Nobel peace prize, like both Mandela and F W de Klerk did? And now we have Zuma. I wonder what all the world’s ambassadors send home in their diplomatic pouches every day?

State capture first by Durban and now Jo’burg families.

Our rainbow is in tatters.

L Christian, Port Elizabeth