Singapore's path not the way for SA

In an opinion piece in Business Times - "SA should emulate Singapore's rise" (September 27) - Jabulani Sikhakhane counsels South Africa to learn from Singapore's 50 years in transforming the civil service. While acknowledging that Singapore's democracy is different from ours, he indicates that they transformed the civil service by managing two competing policy objectives, namely, the creation of a professional and effective civil service and ensuring that its composition was representative of t...