NDZ defends cadre deployment: will the President rebuke her?
22 July 2020
Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Minister of Cooperative Governance, today defended her earlier remarks that municipalities have to appoint the 'right cadres’.
She made this statement in June while addressing the ANC’s OR Tambo School of Leadership.
Responding to Democratic Alliance (DA) criticism in the debate on her department’s budget vote, the Minister rejected the idea that “cadres” are necessarily unprofessional.
“Cadres” refer to deployed ANC members in government, including the civil service and other bodies requiring political impartiality and technical expertise.