In his column, “EFF’s immoral political blackmailing of Nene must be condemned” (October 17) Steven Friedman raised a vital issue. The widespread troubling news in most sectors influenced by the governing party involve morality.
It is apparent that the ANC has never understood the vital importance of experience in managerial roles. This can only be acquired in the reality school of hard knocks over time and there is no substitute for experience. A deployee can be placed anywhere — and has been — but it can’t make him capable of doing the job. We are now in a swamp of failures: of management (strikes everywhere), service delivery (protests everywhere) and governance (crooks everywhere). Anyone who deploys a person to a job they have no realistic chance of doing is unethical. Too often, it seems, a deployee is happy to take the title, the salary, the office and the perks without any intention of learning the job or accepting the responsibilities. Anyone who takes a job without a...
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