PERFORMANCE AGREEMENTS
XOLISA PHILLIP: Muthambi and Dlamini give the lie to Zuma’s lofty ideals
'Faith Muthambi and Bathabile Dlamini’s mishandling of their crucial portfolios demonstrate how far short Zuma’s administration has fallen'
At the opening of the ANC’s 53rd national conference in December 2012, President Jacob Zuma took to the podium in Mangaung to deliver the party’s political report. That curtain-raiser speech was made five years after the ANC’s Polokwane conference, the road to which was paved with "divisions and turbulence", by Zuma’s own admission. As has come to be the case with the president’s speeches, he captured the good, the bad and the ugly of the party and the country — sprinkling in a promise to do better and throwing in a forward-looking recovery plan of sorts. The good he highlighted in the speech was the fact that, in 2009, his new administration had ushered in an era of performance agreements for ministers. His administration had even set up a performance, monitoring and evaluation unit in the Presidency to ensure ministers stuck to their end of the bargain. Zuma said the government would be more "performance-oriented" and there were signs the changes were "bearing fruit".Again, in mid...
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