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President Cyril Ramaphosa and his cabinet does deserve criticism but there is a way to go about doing it, writes Oscar van Heerden.

After his controversial speech at BNC#4, Rob Hersov answers questions from Alec Hogg and members of the BizNews community.

20 September 2022 - One of South Africa’s diminishing band of the super-rich, Rob Hersov, set tongues a-wagging and feathers a-ruffling last week with his comments about the depressing state of the country, and his, ahhh, perspectives on what has brought it to this point. ‘Corrupt clowns, criminals … Cyril’s clown Cabinet,’ he declaimed. Some in this circus are older, some younger, ‘but all of them are incompetent.’ The President – dare one say Ringmaster to all this? – was a ‘useless, spineless failure’.

SME owners are alert to the misrule which the ANC has wrought upon the general business environment and SMEs have no loyalty to the ANC.

South Africans have become so acclimatised to the endless failures we experience and learn about on a daily basis, and yet so few leaders in business are prepared to say in public what they say to each other in private, writes Rob Hersov.