Abstract
Conflicts between directors-general and their ministers in South Africa
are often brought into the public domain by the media. This ‘chronic’ phenomenon
is an important subject in political administrative interface discourse that
necessitates scholarly engagements because of its potential to thwart public
service delivery. In this article the issue of conflicts between the directorsgeneral
and their ministers during the first decade of democracy in South
Africa is examined from a ‘postulative’ perspective, which is a hypothesessetting
approach. In the context of three major trends in the transformation of
the public service in South Africa since the inception of the democratic regime
in 1994, various hypotheses about the causes of conflicts at the political
administrative interface are made. Scholars in the field of politics and
governance are challenged to engage ‘postulative’ statements or hypotheses
propagated in this article by subjecting them to analytical scrutiny to either
validate or disprove them.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:tut/oai:encore.tut.ac.za:d1001417 |
| Date | 04 December 2007 |
| Creators | Maserumule, MH |
| Publisher | South African Association of Political Studies |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | |
| Rights | c2007 South African Association of Political Studies |
| Relation | Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies |
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