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Johannesburg - There can't be too much tinkering with how the National Commission for Planning should look, reckons Trevor Manuel, the minister tasked with setting up the commission.
This week in parliament an ad hoc committee will hear submissions on the envisaged committee. Cosatu and its associates have been savaging Manuel for weeks about what they regard as his attempt, in the guise of a "prime minister", to use this committee to assume control over key departments.
"We don't want to wait too long to establish the structures," Manuel said on Monday after a meeting with the smaller trade union Fedusa.
By April, a fifth of the current government's term will have elapsed, he pointed out.
Fedusa wanted Manuel to explain how the new commission would work with Nedlac, the forum in which policy matters affecting government, business and trade unions are discussed.
"We don't want Nedlac to be overshadowed and deprived of resources," commented Fedusa general-secretary Dennis George.
Manuel criticised the union because it had so far not prepared a submission for the ad hoc committee.
- Sake24.com
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