Mike Wills has never seen a transparently less decisive political leader in over four decades of studying them.
Cape Town – “The buck stops here” was the famous sign on the Oval Office desk of US president Harry S Truman but in President Jacob Zuma’s Union Buildings office the sign would read: “The buck stops nowhere.”
I’ve never seen a transparently less decisive political leader in over four decades of studying them across the globe than Zuma who continually leaves glaring contradictions unresolved and then ignores the devastating consequences of such neglect.
At the moment just about everything significant to do with the economy falls into this space, as does e-tolling, the future of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), the affordability of the National Health Insurance (NHI) and… on and on the list could go.
I don’t know whether all of this is the result of decisive indecisiveness – an art form for political survival by never making any enemies…
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