Mantashe: Debate over planning commission settled

the only reason the alliance agreed to keep manuel on as the head of the npc,was to settle rattled investors who have become accustomed to manuels policy appraoch.it is really sad that the alliance cannot get over petty personal political vendettas and allow expediency to to prevail over principles.really sad.while the summit was a watershed in terms of clearing the who's who in south african government,it remains a challenge that sacp and cosatu put away their tantrums because they might cost the country a lot in the future.

power is a profoundly interesting concept.

in the context of the noise in the mainstream media with regard to deployments, it is interesting to note the almost independent reporting on the issue of trevor manuels role. or as i call it, deployment. it emerged to me yesterday that bobby godsell was deployed by the anc to the eskom board. or will that be the alliance? it is stated in the same article by gwede mantashe how some deployments work out and some dont!

i then take a moment to reflect on this deployment issue. paul wolfowitz and alan greenspan comes to mind. the choice of these two is intentional. one worked out and the other, however loyal to the conservatives cause, from christian fundamentalism (iraq and afghanistan) to neo-colonialism through his actions at the bank, did not work out. world politics are littered with these examples. ok, ok some will say the greenspan legacy should include the current recession. hehehe

the point i am trying to make is that there is something fishy about the media's take on deployments in this country. when elephants battle, it is the ants that are killed. politicians all over the world work with people who they can trust. a country still looking to government for basics like ours is a sign of non-development which will normmally take time. so the most pressing issues for us as a society cannot be deployment. besides, a combination of things like the apartheid history, affirmitive action, black economic empowerment simply means that not deploying people you know will undermine transformation. so yes, this will be fodder for a 24 hour news cycled media but in the main the government is in the right direction.

problem is the media in this country can be powerful if they figure out how to be so. fortunately for the politicians, our media is still wet behind the ears on how to be influential with the biggest voting block, the Black populace whom they have patronised, at best. so they fight directly with the politicians. and as such, we get fed with rubbish that can be totally irrelevant to our daily lives.

in short, cut the nonsense about deployments. suitably qualified or not, rather get the deployee to have a project manager. the problem has never been deployments themselves, but inability to execute. no one is asking of these deployees to conceptualise policy, that is done at anc level. so we do not need geniuses in government. just press the need for project management. unless, the media is peddling an agenda to have certian preferred people in these positions. that is entirely possible! in south africa...

edwin matlapeng

I dream of the day when our leaders do not have time for endless debates because they are too busy delivering on what has already been promised to our people.....

“The broad thrust of that latest document is acceptable to us and that there are issues that still remain, to be nuanced and worked on, but that excludes the issue of chairing which we have settled on,” said Dlamini.
Have you every read such bullsh..t. The only thrusting that is being done here is up our collective (I will leave your imagination to the rest)The balls these okes have got is unbelievable. The jostling for positions at the piggy trough has been decided. Manuel gets to agree who gets what and how much. The only thing sticking out of Manuels ass are the prada shoes that blade and his buddies are wearing. It is sickening to the core. Bastards