Politicians, not bureaucrats, stand in the way of a professional civil service in SA
By Opinion
By Professor Mcebisi Ndletyana
The post-Covid-19 world will demand that governments do more with less, or at least spend within their means.
Economic activity has ground to a halt. In South Africa’s case, the country was in bad shape even before the pandemic.
Covid-19 coincided with the downgrading of the country’s credit status to junk. More than three million people have since lost their jobs as companies shut down, reducing revenue collection. Estimates put the shortfall in revenue collection for past year between R150 billion and R250bn.