The initial commitment, informed by the constitutional dream of the struggle, has been trundled underfoot by ministers and presidents
South Africa has had a mixed bag of environmental ministers over the past 30 years and, bar a few, most have taken the environmental agenda forward
Bold strides have been made in unravelling apartheid’s systems of education but there is still a lot to be done to achieve equality
They have on the whole served satisfactorily, but the department has
also been marred by decades of maladministration and corruption
There have been seven police ministers over the past three decades and not one has cracked a decent crime busting grade
The department has tried to turn the health system around but it’s plagued by inefficiency, staff shortages, dismal leadership and governance failures
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The electricity minister says the grid is much healthier and consequently the use of diesel had reduced
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The extractive and top-down approach of Operation Phakisa ignores harmful environmental and social impacts