LETTER: SA deserves better than ANC cadre deployment
At least Enoch Godongwana was honest about it — believing the Government Employees Pension Fund belongs to the government
It has always been ANC policy “to deepen the hold of the liberation movement over the levers of state”, and now party chair Gwede Mantashe has admitted to [this] before the Zondo Commission, though he tried to justify it.
For all South Africans who have, over the past 27 years, visited a government office for whatever purpose, this was not news. We experienced it. Enoch Godongwana was even more honest when it came to cadre deployment — he believes the Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) belongs to the government. He is also chair of the ANC national executive committee’s subcommittee on economic transformation, and during an interview said: “What is undermining accountability is the creeping of patronage under the guise of deployment ... greed is one ... where people are put in positions to get access to resources.”..
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