An Overview: Table of Contents Section 1. Introduction 2. Understanding Organisation 3. The DPSA and Organisation 4. Types of Organisation 5. Cost and Pay : An organisational distraction 6. Organisation and Service Delivery 7. Organisation : The framework of...
Cosatu Versus Manuel: The Rules Of Engagement
Cosatu concedes that it is involved in what it describes as "an argument" with Trevor Manuel, the Minister of Planning in the Presidency. Some commentators have used the appellation "fight" and others "something of a panic attack in Cosatu" to characterize what is...
Doctors, Hippocrates And Hypocrisy (Cont.)
The cacophony surrounding the wage negotiations in the public health sector has generated more heat than light. The sight of highly qualified professionals engaged in picket line protests complete with toyi toying is novel. Their placards prescribing a "cash...
The Constitution And Quotas (Cont.)
The sparks that have been flying as a result of the decision of the new Western Cape Premier to appoint an all male mainly "white" cabinet to help her run her province reasonably and accountably, need to be placed in their constitutional context. The provisions of...
What’s It To Be: Constitutionalism Or Populist Revolution? (Cont.)
It is an unavoidable part of the deal, as fashioned between the representatives of all the people, that the Constitution means, in the final analysis, what our independent judiciary interprets it to mean. Other organs of state are required to assist and protect the...
The Scorpions, The Constitution And The Rule Of Law
The controversial National Prosecuting Authority Amendment Act and the South African Police Services Amendment Act bring about respectively the demise of Directorate of Special Operation (DSO) or the Scorpions, as they are known to the public, and the creation of a...
The Dawning Of The Age Of Responsibility
If one takes into account that the economy of the United States is about 100 times the size of the South African economy, that the World Bank has its tentacles in every nook and cranny of the global economy and that South Africa is part of that global economy, then it...
Affirmative Action: Redressing Or Creating Imbalances? (Cont.)
The appropriate starting point for discussing the legislative and other measures actually taken since 1994 is the origin of them all: section 9 (2) itself. It is part of the equality provision set out in the Bill of Rights. This is a provision which is central to the...
Qunta’s Blind Spot (Cont.)
If we take as our starting point, as we must, that the new South Africa is a non-racist, non-sexist democracy in which equality is a guaranteed right and unfair discrimination is frowned upon to such an extent that discrimination on grounds of race or gender is...
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