In the prevention of fraud, “red flags” are used as tools to evaluate
the imminence of it taking place. They can also be used as a yardstick
on the appointment of prospective leaders or employees.
Applying this theory to the current leadership, it becomes obvious that
the country has ignored all the red flags and went ahead to appoint
Jacob Zuma as the president. Rather than redeem
himself, Mr Zuma continues to marvel the country through his (mis)leadership
style of silent administration in the midst of real national issues
arising. His spin doctors do everything not to account to the nation
by offering conflicting statements and never taking responsibility.
Perhaps the president does not
have any clue of what presidents actually do *1.
The recent furore regarding the president’s disclosure of financial and
business interest is a case at hand. Disclosure practice is one of the
pillars of good (corporate) governance as it builds confidence in
leadership through transparency. As always the president does not know
that he needs to disclose to the country, and he has had to waste our
money by consulting, despite him signing such a preamble. As it is the
country is suddenly governed by committees and task teams because our
president does not know what should be done. Perhaps he should be
recalled to make way for better leaders.
Several now widely reported red flags should have been a warning to the
country. In addition, Mr Zuma cannot discriminate between his duties as
the country’s president and as the ANC president this is why the
country is cursed with Julius Malema, who behaves like the country’s
deputy president. Mr Zuma seems like a classic case of cadre deployment,
which is heavily and financially costly to the country as it stifles
service delivery and development through corruption from incompetent
members of the ruling party.
Perhaps we should invigorate our proportional representation voting
system through a series of interviews and oral questions from the
citizens for the prospective president, and should he fail to answer the
majority then he fails to become the president. Otherwise the country
will be stuck with a president who even misreads his own writing and
always wants to get clarity from outside sources.
Phillimon Mnisi
JohannesburgWith acknowledgements to
Phillimon Mnisi and Business Day.
*1 But anyone
who knew anything about something knew this from around 2005 at the
latest.
This president thought and thinks that what JFK did is what presidents
do; like at tea time and when everyone else is having a smoke break.
My mother reads my magenta comments so I cannot elaborate too much.
But getting back to probability theory, there is probably around a 5%
chance that coitus will result in childbirth. Less when the gunner is 67
years old.
So there must have been a lot of gunnery to make 35 children. Every
opportunity needs exploitation.
This dingbat should be national president of the Porridge Gunners
Society, not national president of the RSA.