In my previous post I wrote Helen Zille and IRR et al are not true liberals. I continue with this theme. In an article first published in Rapport where she’s a regular contributor, Zille wrote of South Africa’s “ culture of unaccountability ”. Quoting her “lodestar” political analyst and writer Francis Fukuyama, she said a “democratic society must get three key things right: the rule of law; a capable state performing its functions reliably and efficiently; and a deep-rooted culture of accountability, a deceptively simple formula [that’s] how devilishly difficult it is to achieve” Indeed, for her it is because as I said before, despite presenting herself as having an “innate understanding of good governance, a liberal principle, in key areas she herself failed” in her role as premier of the Western Cape. I mentioned two examples but there are others. As she indirectly says, the test of liberalism is defending freedom of speech, accountabil...