http://politics.za.net/articles/2005/11/01/disappearing-targets en-us 40 Third world country. First world politics. <p>The <acronym title="Human Sciences Research Council">HSRC</acronym> have released a report <a href="http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&#38;click_id=13&#38;art_id=vn20051101062026197C136121">critical</a> of government for slow service delivery. Now slow service delivery is nothing new, what is alarming is the <span class="caps">HSRC</span> raising the issue of targets being set and then silently dropped when it&#8217;s clear they can&#8217;t be met.</p> <p>This could backfire on the <span class="caps">ANC</span> quite a bit (if it isn&#8217;t backfiring already). The news has been full of reports of civil unrest as people wait for houses that were once promised but have not arrived.</p> <p>And it&#8217;s not even things like housing which take some time to organise. Cheap internet access for school&#8217;s, something that was supposed to have materialised a while ago and which is not difficult to implement, has yet to actually happen.</p> Tue, 01 Nov 2005 22:08:00 -0500 urn:uuid:c660d3f8a3dd44348738c0095a87e17b Farrel http://politics.za.net/articles/2005/11/01/disappearing-targets National Government