the lighter side of local government What’s your key performance indicator?
Happy New Year!! For those of you trative interface. As a representative of managers in the municipality.
that haven’t noticed, it’s the start
the department I sit through a number of
• Social Exclusion (Youth) – this is meas-
party list) that this is cause for celebra-
• Social Exclusion (Women) – measured
tion. After all, we’ve completed another
our political mandate that 50% of munici-
still exist – some look a lot better than
District Municipal Manager: ‘Mr Mayor,
done, all 283 of you, save for a few with
with all due respect, we have 530 staff,
• Economic Development – measured by
The Post-Polokwane Purge (a dramatic, almost
cinematic, night of the long knives) reminds me of the
who still hold their posts. If you are still a
mayor or even a premier, regional or pro-
vincial chairperson, you are either very
office-bearers of the ruling party, direct-
ly or indirectly benefiting from council
of the financial year, we need to either
retrench most of our male staff or virtually
• Responsiveness – average response time
and Master. Don’t you just love it when
to complaints and service faults as a per-
ber more than half of our staff are roads
centage of the lifespan of the earth.
break the association with his namesake,
workers, and it is difficult to get women
• Quality of Councillor Training – average
Brooklyn rapper Jay-Z, and his deeply my-
star rating of food and accommodation.
sogynistic song ‘I got 99 problems but a
District Mayor: ‘I do not have to remind
• Gearing Ratio – number of people ca-
mayor of our municipality, was just sacked.
Despite being a mover and shaker, political
will be women and that’s what the target
rising star, much-wanted keynote speaker
for this year will be. This is not for discus-
• Food security – number of municipal
at cocktail parties and being Zulu and all,
sion. If you can’t achieve the target I want
he was unburdened of his responsibilities
to see empirical evidence why you can’t.
for throwing in his lot with Comrade Thabo
‘I’m too clever for my people… too clever
• Creditor Efficiency – % of SMME service
certainly enjoying its omnipotency, like
ing for suitable performance indicators.
Here is a selection likely to make your mu-
• Learning and growth – % of countries
nicipal performance look great, no matter
matic, almost cinematic, night of the long
• Pini Co-efficient – this is the level of
leone, son of the Godfather, reluctantly
takes his late father’s place as leader of
• Access to Economy – this is measured as
the percentage of poor citizens and indi-
gents who can easily access a casino.
writes this column in his own capacity and
his views do not necessarily represent the
Pay) – measured as the annual increase
in guaranteed pay of senior (section 57)
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