Professionalising the public service needs to start with making top positions permanent, breaking the link between political parties and public servants and swi
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With only five years in office, the top official barely has time to learn the ropes and take full charge of their municipality or department. The excuse for this approach from the ANC, which sets the rules as the governing party, is that they like working with a top official who is close to them. Where cadre deployment goes badly wrong is when the short-term appointments at the top result in a revolving door between public service, politics and procurement .
Equivalently, the last provision could be enforced by disallowing service provision or contracting by any entity that has employed a public servant for at least five years after they parted company with that employer. Another issue is the slow and tedious processes for getting the Special Investigating Unit to act. Before a criminal investigation or civil cost recovery can start, a presidential proclamation has to be signed.
In South Africa, we already have specialist courts that have the same status as the high court. The labour courts have exclusive jurisdiction of labour disputes; the electoral court has jurisdiction over disputes with the Electoral Commission of South Africa and within parties, though not exclusive of the high courts.
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