SA superheroes’ feet of clay crumble
The latest idol with feet of clay crumbling before us has been Andrea Johnson, who has been head of the Independent Directorate Against Corruption (Idac) for four years and who fell on her sword this week after being shown up in the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry as barely competent, at the very least.
Johnson has had her vehement supporters in sections of the media but, to us at least, she has not given solid reasons why she should have been considered as our saviour from corruption.
In a society both cynical and angry, it is surprising that South Africans continue to place their hopes in a hero – that mythical superperson, man or woman, who will offer a strong muscular arm which will haul us out of the moral cesspit into which we are slowly being sucked downward.
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