The National Education Health and Allied Workers Union (NEHAWU) has placed some of the blame for service delivery problems on Minister in the Presidency, Trevor Manuel, after he raised concerns about the civil service.
 
NEHAWU spokesperson, Sizwe Pamla, points out that, "What he forgot to mention was that the current government has spent the last couple of years trying to reverse some of the disastrous policy positions that he championed as the Minister of Finance."
 
Pamla is of the view that Manuel supported neo-liberal macro-economic policies, and privatisation, outsourcing and public-private partnerships that had proven ‘disastrous for the public sector’.
 
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