{"id":11296,"date":"2013-10-24T06:45:21","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T06:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11296"},"modified":"2013-10-24T06:45:21","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T06:45:21","slug":"bbf-should-refrain-from-influencing-tenders-says-pp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11296","title":{"rendered":"BBF should refrain from influencing tenders, says PP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/thuli.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11297\" alt=\"thuli\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/thuli.jpg\" width=\"276\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a>Good governance begins with ethical leadership, Public Protector <span class=\"tips\">Thuli Madonsela<\/span> said at the annual Black Management Forum conference on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Refrain from using power and connections to influence the issuing of unnecessary tenders or getting tenders you do not qualify for,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Operate ethically, taking in to account the need for sustainability, including knowing that having islands of influence in a sea of poverty is not sustainable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Power struggles within organisations appeared to contribute to poor governance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Madonsela drew an analogy between George Orwell&#8217;s novel <i>Animal Farm<\/i> and cases she investigated where public funds were used by state officials for their own comfort, instead of addressing the needs of the public.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Such instances led to a trust deficit between the state and the people, which was often exacerbated by a lack of proper accountability.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Madonsela also warned about power-mongering, in the form of people withholding knowledge from their colleagues or superiors in an attempt to gain power within organisations. This practice also had negative consequences for governance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She also drew attention to the importance of retaining institutional memory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;A high leadership and technical skills turnover in organisations exposes the organisation to uncertainties about rules, procedures and systems,&#8221; she said. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good governance begins with ethical leadership, Public Protector Thuli Madonsela said at the annual Black Management Forum conference on Wednesday. &#8220;Refrain from using power and connections to influence the issuing of unnecessary tenders or getting tenders you do not qualify for,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Operate ethically, taking in to account the need for sustainability, including knowing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11296\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BBF should refrain from influencing tenders, says PP&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[7118,5297,7117,7116,5598],"class_list":["post-11296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-accountability","tag-black-management-forum","tag-george-orwells-novel-animal-farm","tag-poor-governance","tag-public-protector-thuli-madonsela"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/thuli.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11298,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11296\/revisions\/11298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}