In 1994, the ANC wanted to remove apartheid hacks from the public service. This is a tricky balance, but nearly 30 years on, this problem should be past us.
Despite hundreds of millions paid by the government for a water treatment works upgrade, crumbling infrastructure and pump problems are wreaking havoc.
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Two Eastern Cape MECs have been axed and several political heads of struggling provincial departments have been shifted around. Opposition parties claim the reshuffle has nothing to do with service delivery and that Premier Oscar Mabuyane is simply ‘cleaning house’ before the ANC’s electi.