@anthonybut@brankobrkic Paying high salaries hasn't worked as an incentive to performance and to discourage corruption. Look at SOES, says Mchunu.
@anthonybut@brankobrkic Very little evidence that CEOs withstood inappropriate political interference. This is why we need a single Public admin for national, provincial, local and SOEs.
The whole public admin needs to be brought into a common legal and regulatory environment.
#FasttrackingReform Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi starts with Marx's Brumaire - man makes history but not in circumstances of their own making.
Global context, governments face pandemic. Silver lining is the rediscovery of community, society and public administration from economy.
New Public Management, huge influence in SA, imposed minimalist PS, instrumental focus on efficiency. Need to recover the focus on public service, without overlooking costs.
SA needs an Institutional focus on Public service, rather than an Economic one.
Onslaught of NPM and monetarist economics stalled international progress to welfare state and progressive reforms in postcolonial environments.
Fraser-Moleketi raises importance of Public Service Commission to reform agenda.
The reward for public service is not supposed to be renumeration. It is supposed to be one's contribution to wellbeing.
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Conference misses a key question, argues Motsohi. Apartheid was a system of exclusion. That is at the root of it. Post-apartheid challenge was to set a strategic intent to serve larger South Africa.
Social Justice and Equity are the key strategic challenges of the public service. We haven't achieved this because organisations are not 'fit for purpose'.
Tompson says three areas of reform: making rules, applying rules and internal organisation. Task becomes very difficult when it comes to state regulating and reforming itself.
Key point: Reforms take a long time and a long time to prepare. More haste less speed. Crises are an opportunity for reform, but reforms only succeed if groundwork has already been done.
Why has SA lost development momentum, asks Donaldson? Thesis he makes: SA took on a huge range of too many very complex projects simultaneously.
7 perspectives on development. 1. Tension between role of government and markets. 2. Overlapping and contradictory BEE policies. 3. State building: is it about building institutions or building expertise. 4. Integrity + Performance Mngmt between rules based systems and discretion
Momo: underlying state capture was a political narrative that pulled many good people by their noses. There were lots of red flags but people didn't ask questions.
National Treasury was terribly naive putting in place an accountability framework. Focused a lot on the sexy parts but not on the practical, operational issues and how people could get round them.