The State Capture report asserts that the ANC was responsible for weakening many state institutions by deploying unqualified and inexperienced people, creating fertile ground for corruption and state capture.
Explained as the appointment of loyalists by the governing party to ensure that the government institutions stay true to the mandate of the party, the cadre deployment policy has become a subject of academic research, scrutiny, criticism and even a court case.
In June the DA launched a court action against the ANC at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria to declare the policy unconstitutional and illegal. A study from the University of the Free State journal asks whether "the ANC and the Cadre Deployment Policy in the Post-apartheid South Africa is A Product of Democratic Centralization or a Recipe for a Constitutional Crisis?"
William Gumede is Associate Professor at the Wits School of Governance and is also the Executive Chairperson of Democracy Works – he joins us now for this discussion
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