Jabulani Sikhakhane | Framework for civil service reforms thin on depoliticisation details

The problem with the current set-up of the civil service is simply that he who appoints the piper has the power to call the tune to which the piper often dances, writes Jabulani Sikhakhane.

Government has proposed a framework for the professionalisation of the public service, the success of which, it says, will require the depoliticisation of civil servants.