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#fasttrackingreform #StateCaptureCommission #ZondoCommission Thabang Motsohi agrees with Kieswetter that reform requires a clarity of purpose and ethical leadership. @anthonybut
Conference misses a key question, argues Motsohi. Apartheid was a system of exclusion. That is at the root of it. Post-apartheid challenge was to set a strategic intent to serve larger South Africa.
Social Justice and Equity are the key strategic challenges of the public service. We haven't achieved this because organisations are not 'fit for purpose'.
#FasttrackingReform #StateCaptureCommission #ZondoCommission Toyin Falola insists that any reform agenda has to deal with citizenship. State administrations in postcolonial Adrica are largely foreign impositions. This is key! @anthonybut @brankobrkic @ferialhaffajee
Postcolonial State administrations operate on the basis of kinship. In Nigeria, President could instruct head of Reseve Bank to deliver cash to house. When Governor of Kano was asked why he had government money in his home, he asked how can governor not have government money.
Who polices the officials? Historically, people policed themselves through shame and guilt. Modern states destroy that sense of shame.
#FasttrackingReform #statecapture #StateCaptureCommission Bill Tompson notes that term State Capture is misleading. Suggests that state is victim, yet politicians gain huge benefits from rent seeking practices @anthonybut @brankobrkic @ferialhaffajee
Tompson says three areas of reform: making rules, applying rules and internal organisation. Task becomes very difficult when it comes to state regulating and reforming itself.
Key point: Reforms take a long time and a long time to prepare. More haste less speed. Crises are an opportunity for reform, but reforms only succeed if groundwork has already been done.
#fasttrackingreform #StateCaptureCommission #ZondoCommission @anthonybut @brankobrkic @ferialhaffajee Edward Kieswetter outlines damage done to SARS - huge growth in power of criminal syndicates as SARS was weakened.
@anthonybut @brankobrkic @ferialhaffajee Turning SARS around starts with a clear vision: smart, modern SARS with integriry, trusted and admired
@anthonybut @brankobrkic @ferialhaffajee Kieswetter says the focus is on voluntary compliance rather than forced compliance.
#FasttrackingReform @anthonybut @brankobrkic Gumede proposes that we should not be so focused on the economy. Leadership is especially important.
Percentage of compensation as a share of GDP rising, especially at Provincial level.
Donaldson notes that even cities and departments with strong financial positions hardly borrow money, hardly invest in infrastructure and hardly spend on township development.
#FasttrackingReform @anthonybut @brankobrkic Donaldson says that building trust is at the centre of rebuilding the public service.
Why has SA lost development momentum, asks Donaldson? Thesis he makes: SA took on a huge range of too many very complex projects simultaneously.
7 perspectives on development. 1. Tension between role of government and markets. 2. Overlapping and contradictory BEE policies. 3. State building: is it about building institutions or building expertise. 4. Integrity + Performance Mngmt between rules based systems and discretion
#FasttrackingReform Ismail Momoniat, Andrew Donaldson and Vusi Gumede on how money is spent in the public service @anthonybut @brankobrkic
Momo: underlying state capture was a political narrative that pulled many good people by their noses. There were lots of red flags but people didn't ask questions.
National Treasury was terribly naive putting in place an accountability framework. Focused a lot on the sexy parts but not on the practical, operational issues and how people could get round them.
#FasttrackingReform Conference turns to dealing with the history of state integration and the Bantustans in the development of the public service.
Prof Twala, need to think Free State admin in relation to Thaba Nchu and XwaXwa.
In QwaQwa integration was actively resisted. Many former officials joined the ANC.
Patrick Fitzgerald argues there is no prospect of an entirely depoliticised public service, but we have failed to regulate politcisation
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The exile ANC overestimated the importance of ideology and policy. It underestimated the importance of institutions
Functioning institutions are the key to development, but they are fragile
#FasttrackingReform Fitgerald says that there is no such thing as a depoliticised public service. There is much scope for deployment and political appointments.
To get public administration working we need to guide, direct and regulate politicisation, rather than try and abolish it.
Fitgerald says, by all means make political appointments. But regate them.
#FasttrackingReform Mchunu announces that DPSA is implementing a SINGLE PUBLIC service. Major announcement @anthonybut @brankobrkic
@anthonybut @brankobrkic Paying high salaries hasn't worked as an incentive to performance and to discourage corruption. Look at SOES, says Mchunu.
@anthonybut @brankobrkic Very little evidence that CEOs withstood inappropriate political interference. This is why we need a single Public admin for national, provincial, local and SOEs.
