Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. Hon Doman, you will recall that a party in a province - I don't want to mention names - when regulations were developed in 2006, employed a person who had only passed Standard 4 to be a municipal manager. This person was a taxi driver and had no experience in municipal issues. When the MEC challenged this, the party went to court and the regulations were found to be unlawful.
Now what we are doing to address that problem is to introduce the Local Government: Municipal Systems Amendment Bill in which we will be able to address the weaknesses that were raised by the court. This means if there are managers who employ unskilled people, the MEC can intervene. If the MEC doesn't intervene within 14 days, the Minister will intervene. The Bill was in Parliament with the portfolio committee, which took it to Nedlac, and Nedlac was supposed to give a report at the end of last month.
Therefore, we have done our part. We have introduced the Bill and we are ready to roll out the regulations once the law is passed to ensure that we address this very same question. Hon Doman, you can ask yourself as a parliamentarian. Thank you.
Position regarding formulation and implementation of national anticorruption strategy
234. Mr L Ramatlakane (Cope) asked the Minister for the Public Service and Administration:
Whether his department has (a) formulated a national anticorruption strategy and (b) begun to implement this strategy across the whole spectrum of government; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details? NO3698E