South Africa: How Parliament Functions Without a Shred of Evidence

21 October 2003

Johannesburg — Document management may not be the most exciting topic of conversation or project an organisation can undertake, but recent events clearly demonstrate that the lack of effective record management can leave a reputation in tatters. Paul Mullon, marketing director of document and records management specialist Metrofile, expounds.

The Speaker of Parliament recently publicly chastised certain politicians for inadvertently shredding important documents. Given the scrutiny government officials find themselves under and the current allegations of corruption, it is no great stretch of the imagination to ascribe all sorts of under-handed motives for the destruction of the files.

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