THE cash-strapped Mpumalanga Parks Board is gearing for greater commercialisation as part of its restructuring process. The organisation unveiled its new senior management organogram on Wednesday, which, for the first time, included a commercialisation component. Executive manager of the MPB, Leonard Smit, said on Thursday that the commercial division was much-needed and would be instituted over a period of time. The process was instituted after a string of corruption scandals crippled the parastatal and saw almost its entire top management arrested. Smit said senior managers had been invited to apply for positions on the new management structure and that the establishment of a new middle management echelon could take up to three months to conclude. – African Eye News Service
Friday July 6, 2001
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