The African National Congress (ANC) policy of cadre deployment ‘has been a disaster’, and has delivered no demonstrable benefit to the state, according to ANC veteran and Corruption Watch chairperson Mavuso Msimang.
‘I think cadre deployment has been a disaster. It has created many things. The tenderpreneurs happened because the ANC did not have any money, but ANC-based people got tenders and exacerbated corruption,’ Fin24 reported him as saying in a virtual panel discussion this week.
‘I’m not aware of how it has demonstrably benefited the state,’ Msimang said.
He was taking part in a virtual panel discussion organised by the Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE).
According to the Fin24 report, Msimang said cadre deployment’s beginnings were nuanced and complex, but it was safe to say that its impact on the economy and ordinary South Africans was ultimately wholly negative.
‘Cadre deployment had a good intention, but it got off to a really bad start. The intention was to build a strong capable state and get the best people placed in a particular manner so that it did not encroach on the public service system.’
However, he said, it had turned out to be a disaster.
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