The Zondo Commission of Inquiry into State Capture spent the better part of Wednesday, 14 April listening to ANC national chairperson Gwede Mantashe defend the party’s deployment policy – also known as cadre deployment.
Parties contest elections with the aim to take over power. Once in power they can then appoint a government to exercise power on behalf of the state. In a written response to a parliamentary question posed by the DA, Minister of Public Service and Administration Senzo Mchunu revealed that 3,300 senior managers in the government did not have the requisite qualifications. And 60% of these senior managers are employed in national departments.
Molefe’s appointment was part of the corrupt scheme to further the financial interests of his and former president Jacob Zuma’s handlers, the Guptas. These are the classic cases of bad deployments. But it is not to say that all deployments are bad. In fact, a case of the right kind of deployment took place in the Western Cape when the DA took over power in 2009. This followed the clean-up of almost all the departments and the appointment of senior managers who were aligned to the party.
This is why Mantashe and the commission’s evidence leader Alec Freund SC arguing over whether there is “cadre deployment” in the ANC is neither here nor there. This we already know. Rather, the commission must call the ANC to account for its part in our state’s capture for narrow political ends. We have heard countless witnesses reveal how millions flowed from SOEs, via middlemen, to the ANC or leaders in the party.
To pin everything on Zuma.
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