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28 Apr, 7 tweets, 1 min read
#FasttrackingReform Conference turns to dealing with the history of state integration and the Bantustans in the development of the public service.
Prof Twala, need to think Free State admin in relation to Thaba Nchu and XwaXwa.
In QwaQwa integration was actively resisted. Many former officials joined the ANC.
Twala says we need to clean the last in order to move to the future.
Laura Phillips says that Provincial demarcation comes from DBSA document from the 1980s.
Bantustans had very poor economies, the only economi. game in town was the public service - hence people sought there. Bantustand economies, that is, shaped demographics post-apartheid public services @anthonybut
Not all homeland official were supporters of homelands. Many who joined the new admin, says Twala, added a lot of value.

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