“We must attract skilled, competent staff based on merit and not political appointments” — Dacre Haddon
CRIPPLING senior management shortages in almost half the province’s municipalities are wreaking havoc with local industry as service delivery is coming to a near standstill in those areas.
The provincial Local Government Department has revealed there are 28 senior vacancies in 21 out of 45 municipalities – a shortage being attributed to everything from resignations to misconduct.
THE Eastern Cape department of human settlements has underspent its housing development budget by more than R400-million in the 2011-2012 financial year.
But department head Gaster Sharpley defended the under-expenditure, saying human settlements had met its housing delivery target for the previous financial year.
CONFUSION reigns over what roles education MEC Mandla Makupula and acting superintendent-general Mthunywa Ngonzo will play in the Eastern Cape’s national education department’s intervention.
Makupula, addressing the portfolio committee on education in Bhisho yesterday, said Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga and her officials last week presented the intervention organogram to the province.
“My concern is that he does not get swallowed by the unions” — Edmund van Vuuren
FORMER Eastern Cape acting education superintendentgeneral Mthunywa Ngonzo has been called back to the department to temporarily replace controversial former education boss Modidima Mannya.
What would have been a formal announcement by the provincial Education Department in East London yesterday was cancelled at the last minute as officials waited for Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga to arrive.
Modidima Mannya steps down as Eastern Cape education department superintendent-general after conflict with the South African Democratic Teachers Union over the employment of temporary teachers
THE Eastern Cape education department has lost its flamboyant superintendent-general, Modidima Mannya, who agreed to step down immediately yesterday.
Mr Mannya had earned the enmity of the South African Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu) over the employment of temporary teachers, and there have been questions about his working relationship with Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga, whose department is overseeing an intervention in the Eastern Cape.
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