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Title: | The features of South Africa's post-1994 civil service and the challenges it faces in the new dispensation |
Author: | Maphunye, Kealeboga J. |
Year: | 2001 |
Periodical: | African Administrative Studies |
Issue: | 58 |
Pages: | 1-9 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | apartheid civil service reform |
Abstract: | This article examines the challenges that confronted the new South African government after the country's post-1994 democratic all-race elections. In particular, it analyses the attempted transformation of the civil service in order to reverse the legacy of apartheid and systematic racial discrimination, and assesses the difficulties that emanated from the merger of the numerous administrative structures in the immediate postapartheid period. The author's contention is that, except for this merger, there is no significant difference between the past administrative structures and the current ones. Despite the pioneering legislation introduced during the Mandela administration, his government was hamstrung by certain pre-1994 compromise agreements. While there are no indiciations to suggest that the gains of the Mandela administration could be reversed, and while many of the practices of the past may have gone, the legacy of apartheid persists and still affects the extent of government delivery of public services. Bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract, edited] |