Automotive Business Review Magazine - March 2018

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Our Bloated Ship of State
As I write this, it is 17h20 on 15 February 2018, and Matamele Cyril Ramaphosa has just been sworn in by chief justice Mogoeng Mogoeng. All of South Africa is euphoric, and rightly so, because our very own Caligula, one Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma, has revealed that the emperor has no clothes, and a new era has begun
But hold your horses. And I’m not referring to the horse that Caligula promoted to high office, although if you look at some of the appointees of Zuma, he may as well have appointed horses. The reason why I’m asking you to hold your horses is because one swallow does not make a summer, and dear Cyril has an enormous job ahead of him, in clearing out the Augean stables.
Enough of the metaphors, and down to business. My advice to Ramaphosa is to take all of your political capital, and to spend it on cleaning house – not just in removing the crust of pus that Zuma baked onto our body politic pie, but to overturn the whole filthy maggot infested pot of corruption. It is a herculean task, so let us remove the elephant in the room, bite by bite. There I go again with my metaphors - but then again what is a meta for?