Public service managers are being encouraged to keep posts vacant rather than fill them with whites, an SA Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) consultant said in a newsletter this week.
‘In the name of transformation, managers in the public service have actually been incentivised to keep whites out for racial and ideological reasons.
Better to leave a vacancy unfilled than to put a white person into it,’ SAIRR consultant John Kane-Berman said in the newsletter, published on Tuesday.
He believed this set up newly-qualified young black recruits for failure and their failures in turn hurt countless numbers of people dependent on the public service.
He said this was a ‘lose-lose-lose situation’ and ‘madness’.
The incentives included, among other things, performance bonuses and promotion prospects, he told Sapa on Thursday (June 26).
In the newsletter, Kane-Berman was responding to the death of three babies in Bloemhof, North West, due to water contamination caused by a sewage spill…
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