There's time for everything

Opportunist Julius Malema and the former ANCYL president
addressing the crowd at the memorial service of
the mine workers at Nort West (Marikane Mines)
picture by:telegraph.co.uk

It is sad how ANC members turn every event into a rally. The recent strike at Marikane Mines were were workers were killed by the police while they were fighting for their rights, to read more...www.sowetanlive.com

A person could ask themselves why do people have to die fighting for their rights ?what is happening is no difference to the events that took place during apartheid were people died for freedom. What are our political leaders doing? instead of working together  to solve these problems but instead they using each and every opportunity they get to badmouth each other, this on it's own is not good for this country because its shows that we are not united as a country.

This tragic accident has been sad to everyone but for Malema this was just a medium or an opportunity to tell grieving people that our president is a "coward" www.timeslive.com  , how can one try to top score political points when people are mourning for their loved ones? this was very insensitive of him and was taking advantage of the situation because he was appealing to peoples emotions considering the pain they are going through, the families that lost their loved ones were not interested in political disputes but came to the memorial service to come to terms with what happened.

There's time for everything and everything has it's own time, our political leaders should take this into consideration.

Communication break down

Mine workers from the Marikane Mines stricking for better
wages and better living conditions in the hostel
picture: www.sowetanlive.com

It is very sad how communication break down between two parties can turn into a sad tragedy, were 34 miners lost their lives and 78 were injured at the Marikane mine  at North West. This incident took place last week Friday,  this was caused by a wage dispute between the mine workers and and the top management of the mine, to read more.....  www.sowetanlive.co.za .

This shows that there was no communication between the organisations internal stakeholders and it's top management. It is very important for organisation to communicate with it's internal members(workers)  so that issues could be addressed in time and be resolved within the organisations without involving a third party or the media. Communication breakdown between the two parties did not only end peoples lives but the reputation of the organisation was also ruined in all this.

The question that comes to my mind, is what is the organisations  Public Relations Practitioner (PRP ) going to do to rebuild the reputation/brand of the organisation ? And bear in mind even the most successful business established can be brought down after facing a controversy, this can be extremely damaging and it has been proven that rebuilding an organisation reputation is harder than starting it from scratch.

change is good

President Jacob Zuma reshuffles his cabinet.
picture by: thenewage.co.za

A vigorous, adaptive organisation system(organisation ) remains so because of the process of learning and self renewal, this is one way that organisations use in order to stay relevant by bringing in new people and skills.

 On the 02 August 2012 our President Jacob Zuma applied this principle of systems should constantly change and renew themselves. Cabinet reshuffling is an event that occurs regularly, when the head of government rotates or changes the positions of ministers in the cabinet, to read more on who has been replaced by who or who are the new ministers in the cabinet www.timeslive.com

Reasons why the cabinet should be reshuffled:

• Replace resigned, retired and dead ministers.
• Bring in fresh skills.
• Remove poor performers.
• Reward hard workers within the cabinet.
• Create and rename departments.
• Reassign responsibilities to departments.

Change is always good but constant change can affect continuity and can bring disruptive to the governance and to delivery of services, the question that rises is, is the change about the performance of the ministers or is our president building a wall with people who would re-elect him and is he dismissing people who are a treat to him?

Enough with the blame game



An organisation is a system that is interconnected and all its parts are connected and its not possible to find a single, simple cause effect of a problem or event within the organisation



The recent textbook saga that has occurred at Limpopo Province (Sishego) due to non-delivery ,dumping and shredding of textbook's in the Province has left the Basic Minister of Education Angie Motshekga in the "hot seat", as being the one to blame for the textbook saga. www.timeslive.com



The books that were found at a near dump site at Sishego, Limpopo Province
picture: timeslive.co.za







It is sad how everyone is blaming the Minister where else she is just a part of an organisation and works hand in hand with individuals at the department and she's also a part of ANC. According to  ciibroadcasting " the ANC also turned Minister with other members of it's powerful National Executive Committee slamming her for handling of crisis and also called her sacking".In the same vein trying to find a person that is responsible for a problem is fruitless. This is just not the time to play the blame game because this looks bad on our government as a whole not just the Department of Education.

If the Minister is to be moved from the seat then lots of people from the Department of Education need to follow her because this means that they also incompetent, the suppose to be working hand in hand  with the minister they are a system that is interconnected( works together), and the Department should hire new skilled people who can be assigned to do the job.