LETTER: Unqualified cadre deployment is akin to apartheid in most cases
Those appointed to serve the government of the day must have the necessary qualifications, and not merely be cadres of the governing party
During President Cyril Ramaphosa’s question time in parliament last week, he defended the ANC’s deployment of cadres in the public service in response to questioning by DA leader John Steenhuisen. The latter presented persuasive arguments that this practice is disastrously prejudicial to the national interest and one of the principal causes of corruption and the maladministration occurring in government departments.
The DA has initiated a process to introduce legislation that would make it illegal to appoint people to posts in the public service on the basis of their loyalty to a political party, which is what, inter alia, cadre deployment is really all about. In the light of the above it is opportune to set the record straight both politically and constitutionally on this inordinately contentious policy, which is practised on a vast scale by the ANC government and defended unashamedly by its leaders...
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