Busisiwe Mavuso: Too many crooks in SA politics
Business Leader South Africa CEO Busisiwe Mavuso has warned that the country's political landscape will send it into a state of mayhem.
Mavuso made the remarks during the launch of Defend our Democracy's democratic renewal campaign in Parktown on Thursday.
The campaign will culminate in a national conference in June where labour, civil society, business and faith-based communities will join hands in finding long-lasting solutions to SA's problems.
The country is faced with a myriad of issues including rampant corruption, failing state institutions, poverty and inequality as well as a security crisis.
Defend our Democracy wants better accountability from public representatives and better governance.
Mavuso joined the campaigns leaders who all admitted to the dire state of affairs.
"The big failure for our country is that the politics in this country no longer work and unfortunately this is the elephant in the room," said Mavuso.
"There are just too many crooks within political spheres, and they unfortunately far outnumber the few good men and women who want to see real change.
"When you are sitting in an environment where our elected leaders steal food parcels from the hungry and PPEs from the sick and dying, then you know for sure that you have lost it as a country.
"A if that's not bad enough, you have a disgraced former minister vying for the ANC top job and there are people supporting his candidature and we see nothing wrong with having a murder-accused political leader in Mpumalanga and I think at some point when we do these reflections as a country we might just have to agree and submit and acknowledge that maybe the politicisation of the civil service was a fundamental error," Mavuso added.
She believes the country is on the brink of collapsing, chasing business and investors away.
Listen to Mavuso below:
Defend our Democracy's Reverend Frank Chikane told media that the campaign will look to revive government's failed project of changing lives.
"We want to reverse the downward spiral, we want to recover our values which have lost, we want to revisit and reimagine the future if this country because what we expected in 1994 has been devasted in the last 14 years, and we want to re-envision our political system ad values which must deliver the promise and that promise of a non-racial, democratic, equitable society.
"We want to get people to think anew and be able to think into the future.
"It's either we lose our freedom, or we take a stand and mobilise people as a last line of defence," Chikane added.
A date is yet to be set for the June conference.
Listen to Chikane below:
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