In the space of 48 hours, the government has lurched from technocratic certainty to political retreat, leaving behind a trail of unanswered questions, institutional contradictions and a suspended civil servant who appears, at least for now, to be carrying the weight of a deeply collective failure.
When President Advocate Duma Gideon Boko addressed the nation on the eve of Good Friday, the tone was decisive. The Director of Transport Services, Bokhutlo Modukanele, had been suspended. The reason, a controversial public transport fare hike that the President said was “unauthorised by government.”
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