ANC Struggles to Appoint Transnet CEO Amidst Organizational Disintegration

It’s no wonder the ANC seems unable to appoint a Transnet CEO for months, despite the organisation disintegrating and jobs being lost by the hundreds as a result.” that aired in the early 1980s. It was set mostly in the office of a fictional minister of something called the Department of Administrative Affairs in Whitehall, the centre of the British bureaucracy.

The minister, Jim Hacker, was ably assisted by his Permanent Secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleb y, and when I say ably assisted, obviously I mean surreptitiously and repeatedly stabbed in the back. The name of the series was a joke in itself. The civil servants repeatedly said, “Yes, Minister”, by which they meant, “No, absolutely not – not under any circumstances, don’t be nuts”. At one point, Hacker says to Sir Humphrey, “Do you see it as part of your job to help ministers make fools of themselves?” To which he replies, “Well, I never met one that needed any help”. Drier than my wife’s martini

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