Not buying the Ramaphosa hype

South Africans never cease to amaze me. We are very skilled at finding a scapegoat every time we have to account and deny our reality for far-fetched fantasies.

How else do you explain the praise for President Cyril Ramaphosa, who suddenly has become the best leader in the world?

SA has been downgraded to junk status. This means Ramaphosa, the billionaire businessman, has failed at the very thing he was elected for, which was to revive the economy and stabilise it.

How unfortunate that Ramaphosa and his subjects in the media and business sector use a tragedy like the coronavirus for PR purposes. Shame on you!

Also, Ramaphosa was not the first leader to order a lockdown. US President Donald Trump was severely criticised by the same subjects, as usual the soft target, for closing air travel to and from the US. Actually, almost all nations on Earth are in lockdown.

So I do not understand this hullabaloo over Ramaphosa’s actions when he has done what everyone is doing. Where was this strong leadership and the hostile police and army when black women were dying in their numbers and gangsters ruling in Cape Town?

The question the commentators fail to answer is what will the poor eat during the lockdown? Should the poor fear the virus more than dying from hunger? Let us not forget that China is the second-biggest economy in the world, unemployment is lower, corruption is dealt with decisively and there are no Guptas that can or have captured that state.

In addition to all this, those who claimed there was a Christian crisis of lawlessness are still searching for pastors or prophets to blame, even though churches closed without a protest. It’s the best the critics can do when there are no