FMF FEATURE ARTICLE
Government is servant to the people, not the other
way around
Are we as taxpayers truly the bosses of the politicians and bureaucrats in Cape Town, Pretoria, or Bloemfontein? The handling of the covid-19 pandemic has shown that we are not. Rather than the idealised relationship between a public ‘servant’ and the public, the reality is reminiscent of a relationship between a lord and his vassals.
In response to questions posed to him in Parliament, the president stated how his cabinet did not destroy jobs through their inhibitions on liberty but rather, saved us South Africans from ourselves of course.