Lucas Ledwaba
Zamani Saul, the newly appointed Northern Cape premier will need the support of his comrades in the ANC and government to achieve his vision of zamanifying his province.
Saul’s vision of ‘hard-work and courage’, articulated in his inauguration speech delivered in Lerato Park, an impoverished informal settlement near Kimberley – is a refreshing call identical to Tanzanian president John Magufuli’s revered magufulication.
Magufuli adopted a devil-may-care approach to combat graft, poor governance, laziness, incompetence, wasteful and unnecessary expenditure in government and civil service after his election as Tanzanian president in October 2015.
He showed up announced at public institutions to catch out truant civil servants and gave a number of non-performing highly placed civil servants the chop. He also shrunk his cabinet and introduced strict austerity measures which he took the lead in adhering to.
A little more than three decades earlier Thomas Sankara had led the
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