Those cases include the shootings, the Battlefields mining disaster, the situation in our hospitals, and now Cyclone Idai. When the President and his delegation left the country to go to the UAE, they knew full well that the cyclone was bearing down on us. There were no warnings from his office, no plans for people in the direct path of the storm to be evacuated, Cutting short a trip he should have had the decency to postpone or cancel is meaningless. What we see is a president living up to his reputation as a cold and hardhearted man in spite of his claims that he is “as soft as wool.