Let us hope the amendment will yield the desired results. It was disheartening to learn the other week that this Bill could not be passed by Parliament because of a lack of quorum.
A critical matter that is raised by the YCL statement is the issue of cadre deployment. We are indeed not taking the opposition parties head on in the public discourse on this issue as they also have their own cadre deployment. For example the first thing that Helen Zille did when she became mayor for the City of Cape Town was to remove Wallace Mgoqi as City Manager, and again when she became Premier she removed then Director General of the Province Ms Virginia Peterson, she removed Mr Thami Manyathi Head of the Department of Public Works and many senior officials in the Provincial Government and replaced them with DA cronies. On 4/13/11, Mafika Damane Mndebele <[email protected]> wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Mafika Damane Mndebele <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 4:56 PM > Subject: YCL applauds Parliament for approving the Municipal Systems > Amendment Bill > To: yclsa-press <[email protected]> > > > *YCL applauds Parliament for approving the Municipal Systems Amendment Bill* > > > 12 APRIL 2011 > > > The Young Communist League [uFasimba] applauds parliament for having passed > the Municipal Systems Amendment Bill today after having failed to do so late > last month. The YCL sees the Bill as central in ensuring that municipalities > improves service delivery and appoints competent officials whose > preoccupation will be to serve the people than pledge allegiance to their > political parties. The bill will also empower Counsellors to hold municipal > officials accountable and break the intrinsic and corrupt relationship that > has been evident in many municipalities between politicians and managers. > > The separation of politics from municipal management will also help diffuse > the role many managers played in ensuring that they get elected, and thus > account to themselves. This will also help protect officials who perform > better but are put under pressure, and sometimes dismissed, solely based on > their political allegiance. > The YCL does not support the belief that this was only an ANC phenomenon, as > other political parties; especially the Inkatha Freedom Party and the > Democratic Alliance were guilty in many instances of the cadre deployment > policy they accuse the ANC of. > > > The YCL also sees the bill as being central to the continued fight against > corruption at a local level, and will put municipalities on a different > pedestal as they put people first and not the interests of the pockets of > those at the helm. > > > Issued by the YCL National Office > > contact > > > > Mafika Mndebele > > National Spokesperson > > 073 574 5953 > > -- > You are subscribed. This footer can help you. > Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to > this message. > You can visit the group WEB SITE at > http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery > options, pages, files and membership. > To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . > You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to > put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to > this address (repeat): [email protected] . > -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] .
