Apathy is the real pandemic

When I was about 12, I was walking in the CBD of a major city in the Free State when I was mugged. I shouted for help, but no-one batted an eyelid.

- KYLE ZEEMAN

A child’s plea fell on deaf ears. with street vendors and pedestrians alike.

This is the experience of dozens of people across the country on a daily basis. Apathy is a pandemic that is eroding us as a nation.

And yet those who turn a blind eye are the first to complain about the “injustice” around them.

There has been anger over suspended police minister Senzo Mchunu admitting in parliament on Tuesday there is no evidence of threats he was so adamant were made against him by KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi.

He is the latest in a long list of ministers found to have lied, with