Kadalie has harsh words for SA's leaders

Rhoda Kadalie... harsh words for SA leaders. (Image extracted from the Impumelelo Social Innovations Centre, of which Kadalie is Executive Director)

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• Politicsweb: I did not know that we would mess up so badly... She had such high hopes for this country when democracy finally dawned, and though she knew that it would not all be plain sailing, she was still hopeful that overall, SA would be a much better place, better managed, more just...

  Now, however, Rhoda Kadalie says that 20 years on, what South Africans want is a radical change in political leadership.

  As quoted in Politicsweb, Kadalie writes: "By all accounts 2014 has been one of SA's worst years for government. Government spending is out of control; corruption is endemic; education is a colossal failure; HIV, TB, and pneumonia are the top killers in a country that has the biggest anti-retroviral rollout of any country in the world. The ineptitude prevalent in our state enterprises such as SAA, SABC, Transnet, and of course, Eskom has covered reams of media reports, all of this exacerbated by the Moody's downgrade of SA's credit rating for three consecutive years.

  "What South Africans want is a radical change in political leadership."