Red lights are flashing, indeed. Nothing can better illustrate the damage caused by overpromotion than the chaos about to erupt at the South African Social Security Agency. The arrogance and pitiful ignorance displayed at recent parliamentary portfolio committees is a direct outcome of cadre deployment to ministerial and administrative senior positions. Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini is clearly not in place because of her administrative skills, attention to detail or superior intellect, but because of her frenzied support for Number One, and the hope and expectation she can keep the ANC Women’s League on board. An early sign of a failed cadre deployee is the relationship between the out-of-depthness and the increase in bluster, together with an uncontrollable urge to spout any combination of phrases from a set menu of words such as "colonisation", "white monopoly capital", "counterrevolutionary" and "regime change". Sydney KayeCape Town
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