FINANCE

Not a matter of naughty or nice

Abdool Kara advises the next set of local government ministers to ensure they focus on the achievement of outcomes, and not the elimination of institutions.

Around this time five years ago, just prior to the 2010 election, would-be ministers were writing their wish lists for Santa.

History shows that at least for those who became ministers, these lists were largely full of anti-gifts – by which I mean that they were more lists of what they wanted rid of, rather than what they wanted to actually achieve.

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