The National Development Plan (NDP) vision 2030 will remain a pipe dream if there is no urgency in the professionalisation of the public service in SA. Building a capable state requires more than rhetoric.

The recent cabinet lekgotla and successive statements by President Cyril Ramaphosa on appointing qualified people to do the job is the start of building a capable and development- orientated state...

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