Sisyphean cycle must be broken: Next leaders deserve full support

The cruel uncertainties inflicted on the women, and their families, caught up in the cancer scandal are the most distressing symptoms of the outrage. However, there are others that point to a deepening, society-wide challenge. This challenge must be resolved if the toll these scandals exact is to be brought under control.

One of the country’s most important public positions has remained unfilled since September. Another will be vacated no later than August. These vacancies occur in organisations exposed as inefficient, insular and die-hard resistant to reform. This reality must make them unattractive propositions for candidates with the abilities and ambition needed to at least offer the possibility of breaking the cycle of failure destroying public faith in these organisations.