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** ** Reuel Khoza’s criticism of the Trevor Kekana is significant because of Khoza’s position as chairman of one of South Africa’s big four banks, Nedbank.**** It is unusual for business leaders in this country to be so robust in their assessments of government, at least since the ANC came to power in 1994. Although Khoza did not mention Kekana by name, there can be no doubt whom he had in mind when, in the bank’s annual report, he referred to *“a strange breed of leaders who are determined to undermine the rule of law and override the Constitution”*.**** That has Kekana written all over it, given his repeated comments on the notorious YCLSA e-mail discussion forum.**** Kekana was also clearly the target when Khoza said: “Our political leadership’s moral quotient is degenerating and we are fast losing the checks and balances that are necessary to prevent a recurrence of the past.” **** On a commercial level there could be consequences for expressing such views. Nedbank may find itself at the back of the queue when it comes to doing business with Kekana.**** We applaud Khoza’s courage, and wish more business leaders would speak up against the way democracy is being undermined by morally questionable leadership. Encouragingly, Khoza’s intervention coincides with what appears to be a rising tide of discontent with Kekana, even within the ANC leadership.**** *Anti-**Kekana** sentiment is not restricted to Julius Malema and his disgruntled youth league.* Although there is not supposed to be any discussion before October about candidacy for December’s ANC leadership elections, there are already several hats in the ring.**** *Kekana**’s weaknesses have been exposed and he will be challenged. Good.* ** ** ** -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] .
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