IT HAS been prominently reported in the media that a group of senior religious leaders have warned President Jacob Zuma in no uncertain terms that if political leaders did not stop the moral decay in South Africa, the church would mobilise civil society “to bring about a more healthy democracy” (“Clerics get tough with Zuma”, Pretoria News, December 11).
This group, including Archbishop Thabo Makgoba of the Church Leaders Consultation, declared in a letter to Zuma that South Africa yearned for new leadership in order to restore hope amid growing unhappiness about leaders who had “lost their moral compass”.
Virtually all informed commentators agree that moral regeneration is urgently required for our nation. Although President Zuma has repeatedly indicated that a discourse and strategy are required for moral regeneration in South Africa, very little has been done in this regard, and as a result we are confronted with escalating immorality and decay in society as a whole.
