OPINION: The issue of government deployment goes beyond qualifications and competence, writes former Limpopo premier Sello Moloto
ONE has been following with keen interest the debates, outbursts and outrage on social media in response to the recent decision by the ANC national executive committee at its lekgotla to tighten deployment mechanisms. The outrage is so intense it’s as if the decision is a new policy being imposed by the NEC without it canvassing it first among the membership.
The suggestion of emphasising the deployment of skilled, competent and experienced cadres is something new. Therefore, it will not on its own succeed in resolving the deep-seated problem of malfeasance and maladministration. If qualifications and competence were the only things which were lacking in our system in order to build a capable state, we would not have seen the resignation of the emerging, erstwhile promising black bright stars of the democratic state’s new executives, with impeccable qualifications and experience, like former Eskom chief executives Tshediso Matona, Brian Molefe and Phakamani Radebe, among others.
Many directors-general and senior government managers leave the public service in a similar manner, particularly after elections when the new administration takes over. This proves that the problem is bigger than the lack of qualifications and the incompetence of deployed cadres. The problem stems largely from the accountability mechanisms within the party.
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