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Johannesburg - South Africa will fail unless a massive campaign is launched to change the work ethic in the public service, says Cosatu general-secretary Zwelinzima Vavi.
On Wednesday at a news conference at Cosatu House he declared that South Africa was experiencing a crisis and needed hard-working South Africans to turn the situation around.
The country, he said, needs public servants who realise that they are the "arms and legs" of the Reconstruction and Development Programme and of the Freedom Charter.
Without them, our health and education systems cannot be reformed, and the fight against crime and corruption cannot be won.
One of the biggest problems in the public service is the complete absence of management expertise.
Managers are not managing, he insists. Other officials are useless and inappropriately deployed, and unable to perform the jobs to which they have been assigned.
Earlier this week Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma apparently briefed Cosatu's central executive committee on conditions in her department.
She stated that there was a generally poor standard of service delivery, and even cited instances of insolence and laziness when she had visited offices unannounced.
- Sake24.com
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