Paul Hoffman’s article on cadre deployment ("ANC ignores values of constitution (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/2019-10-29-lets-get-back-to-the-values-of-the-constitution/)", October 30) is an excellent analysis of what the ANC seems determined to get wrong in the pursuit of rectification or “transformation”, to use that blind and tired term.

Where the discussion needs extension for the average media reader is to institutions such as universities. UCT is a good example. Its current management pursues deployment by race, what Hoffman calls “mechanical bean-counting exercises aimed at matching national demographics”...

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