South Africa: State of Turmoil - From Cadre Deployment to a Compliant, Self-Sabotaging Bureaucracy

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At a local government summit in Midrand on Tuesday, President Jacob Zuma said government should have in its employ people with high skills and capacity to improve efficiency. "Don't employ people because you feel for them or they are your friend or cousin. Employ people to do work," Zuma said.

Yet from the police to Eskom to the National Prosecuting Authority, it would seem that those in power want to develop a loyalist cult in the bureaucracy rather than having a skilled, capable state. What is happening is in fact the sabotage of the ANC's own policy of cadre deployment with internal wrangling, court battles and power struggles impairing the functionality of the state.

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