In the past seven years, the City of Cape Town has seen five mayors and an acting mayor, three municipal managers and a high turnover of senior officials.
Now it is feared the proposed replacement of the mayoral committee by a collective system will result in executive paralysis.
Political instability has already damaged service delivery and the morale of city staff.
Political analyst Jonathan Faull of the Institute for Democracy in SA said the rapid changes had made for “inconsistent policy implementation, unsustainable time horizons for policy implementations, and uncertainty”.
“This led to low morale, because the staff do not know if the decisions they are asked to implement will be the same tomorrow or whether the boss they have today will be the one they have tomorrow.”
This had compromised the ability of the city to fulfil its mandate for service delivery, “which has disproportionally affected the poor who are dependent on (it)”. Full Story Cape Argus
Now it is feared the proposed replacement of the mayoral committee by a collective system will result in executive paralysis.
Political instability has already damaged service delivery and the morale of city staff.
Political analyst Jonathan Faull of the Institute for Democracy in SA said the rapid changes had made for “inconsistent policy implementation, unsustainable time horizons for policy implementations, and uncertainty”.
“This led to low morale, because the staff do not know if the decisions they are asked to implement will be the same tomorrow or whether the boss they have today will be the one they have tomorrow.”
This had compromised the ability of the city to fulfil its mandate for service delivery, “which has disproportionally affected the poor who are dependent on (it)”. Full Story Cape Argus
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