Commander-in-Chief asleep at the wheel

SOUTH Africa is spiralling into chaos under the leadership of President Cyril Ramaphosa.

- LANCE WITTEN

Here is a leader who has stumbled from one embarrassing crisis to another, fumbling the ball, seemingly fiddling while Pretoria burns.

Most infamous among Ramaphosa’s foibles was his handling of the break-in at his Phala Phala home, a scandal for which he has so far escaped accountability. We've never gotten to the bottom of the hundreds of thousands of dollars stashed in couches and other furniture that adorn his Limpopo game farm, with investigations and reports into the matter either conveniently clearing the president of any wrongdoing, or having had their adoption and public release blocked by political machinery.

I assume one of the shady deals made to include the DA in the Government of National Collusion - erm, Unity was for the centre-right party to drop the matter.

But it’s not just Phala Phala that taints Cyril’s “legacy” - his complicity in the 2012 Marikana Massacre prior to him taking up the highest office in the land is another thing he’s never faced the music for.

Now, as South Africa's president, Cyril Ramaphosa has fallen asleep at the wheel.

Witten is the Editor of IOL.