KEVIN TUTANI: ANC appointment of incompetents is nothing new
Professionalising is the way to rebuild senior civil service compromised by political favouritism
Shortly before the May general election, the National Assembly passed two bills — the Public Administration Management Amendment Bill and the Public Service Amendment Bill — ostensibly to depoliticise and professionalise the public service.
The department of public service & administration released a directive soon after the poll to implement the 2022 National Framework on the Professionalisation of the Civil Service, and the New South Institute published two documents on the same subject, a white paper — ‘Beyond Political Discretion: Reforming SA’s Senior Civil Service’ — and a policy brief, ‘Towards a Merit-Based Senior Civil Service: Strategies for Reform in SA’...
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