OPINION| There Must Be Consequences For Violence, Corruption and Governing Failures – Steenhuisen

JOHN STEENHUISEN|

CELEBRATED investor Warren Buffett once remarked, “It takes twenty years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”

We need to start doing things differently here in South Africa.

There must be consequences for violence, corruption and governing failures.

The damage done to infrastructure during the week of violence and looting unleashed by Zuma’s faction of the ANC is vast.

But it pales in comparison to the damage done to people’s trust in the rule of law and other institutions needed to ensure peace and wellbeing.

And it’s going to be harder to rebuild. But rebuild it we must, if we are to ensure public safety and achieve the economic growth needed to tackle the tinderbox of poverty and inequality that so fanned the flames of insurrection.

As the preamble to the 2030 Global Sustainable Development Agenda