GOVERNANCE, ETHICS AND THE ACCOUNTABILITY CRISIS: Lessons from the Mandlanga Commission
BY NDZIPO THEMBANI KALIPA:
Union Buildings in Pretoria, the seat of the South African Administration. (Image: SA History Online )
The appearance of Professor Somadoda Fikeni before the Mandlanga Commission (Chairperson of the Public Service Commission) raises fundamental questions about governance, ethics, accountability and the quality of public administration across all three spheres of government.
One of the most important points emerging from his contribution is that the criminal justice system cannot be examined in isolation. It is interconnected with the broader public-administration system. Failures that begin in recruitment, appointments, management, financial controls or political-administrative relations can ultimately manifest themselves as failures with...