COGTA's Hlabisa proposes legislation preventing appointment of political deployees to administrative roles
Cooperative Governance Minister Velenkosini Hlabisa said that political appointments should only be limited for political roles.
COGTA Minister Velenkosini Hlabisa speaking at the Youth and Women Dialogue held at the Birchwood Hotel in Boksburg. Picture: @City_Ekurhuleni/X.
JOHANNESBURG - To address the decline of municipalities, Cooperative Governance (COGTA) Minister Velenkosini Hlabisa has proposed that there should be legislation preventing the appointments of political deployees to administrative roles.
Hlabisa spoke at the Birchwood Hotel in Boksburg, east of Johannesburg, during a Youth and Women Dialogue for the review of the 1998 white paper on local government.
The dialogue aims to collate views from all groups of people for new and updated policies on local governance, which will be presented in a white paper next year.
The term cadre deployment has been made famous by the African National Congress (ANC).
The party said it appointed suitably qualified people into administrative roles in government to carry out its agenda.
Last year, the Democratic Alliance (DA) failed in its court bid to have the policy declared unconstitutional.
Minister Hlabisa said that political appointments should only be limited for political roles.
"The deployment of people, not on the basis of competency, must belong to the past. People who are deployed, they must be judged not on the basis of their political affiliation but on the basis of competence and professionalism."
The deadline for submissions on the local government white paper review is 31 July.