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News24 reports that according to Acting Public Service and Administration Minister Thulas Nxesi, cadre deployment may be an ANC policy, but it is not a government policy.
Nxesi briefed MPs on Tuesday about the government's efforts to professionalise the public service and said: “Insofar as I know, we have not been talking about cadre deployment in the state. We have been talking about interviews, and we go for the right candidates as chosen by the panel. If the ANC has its own cadre deployment policy, [then that would be] an ANC policy. That is not a government policy. That is as far as I know.” This came on the back of President Cyril Ramaphosa tabling his implementation plan on the Zondo Commission's recommendations at Parliament on Saturday and addressing the public on the plan on Sunday evening. In the section of his implementation plan dealing with the public service, Ramaphosa, who chaired the ANC's deployment committee from 2012 to 2017 when state capture was at its height, did not mention the role of the governing party at all. Presenting his final state capture report, Chief Justice Raymond Zondo said cadre deployment was unconstitutional and unlawful and, by Ramaphosa's own admission, could be abused to facilitate corruption and state capture. He dismissed Ramaphosa’s and ANC chairperson Gwede Mantashe's justification of the policy when they testified before the commission.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Jason Felix at News24
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