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How should candidates should be evaluated before being deployed by their political party?


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Yesterday, Build One South Africa announced the first two dozen candidates for the upcoming 2024 elections. During the media briefing, the party unveiled a five step recruitment process in a new approach to deploying members of a political party. Since the South Africa uses the proportional representation system to elect leaders, we vote for the party and have no real say on the party list. In this discussion, we explore whether there should be full transparency in the selection and deployment of party members to public office. We are joined by…

Guest (TELEPHONE): Sandile Swana - Political Analyst and Governance Specialist

Guest: Mfutho Yolokazi – Political analyst (she also works at the Centre for Human Rights at the Pan African Parliament, but says she’s happy with just Political Analyst)

Guest (ZOOM): Mudzuli Rakhivhane - Head of Candidate Recruitment at Build One South Africa

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