Cry the beloved country ... again!

I just published this as a comment on this post on Constitutionally Speaking about corruption in the ANC.  I wanted to share it, its an important issue and one that fills me with despair:

The topic of the ANC and corruption is deeply depressing. There seems to be a sense of entitlement to power and State resources in the ANC (granted a generalisation but not overly so) and Julius Malema is the current poster child for this mindset. I contrast this with Barack Obama’s constant references to the responsibility he bears as President and it places our so-called leadership’s approach to their positions in perspective.

Trends in our judiciary are even worse. Granted they are hardly representative of the entire judiciary but judges like Hlope and Motata are doing irreparable harm to the judiciary with their antics and bolstering the corruption in other spheres of our government.

I keep hoping these are growing pains but we are 14 years down the line and the degree of corruption seems to be accelerating. The fact that we have the “leadership” we have is indicative of how much lip service the ANC pays to its stated goals of attacking corruption and how permissive it is of such misconduct.

Cry the beloved country, indeed.