Community Development Workers
CDWs are meant to be impartial liaison officers on the ground moving among the poorer communities to ensure the needs of the people are correctly identified and conveyed to government and that government gets into action to meet the people's need.
   Unfortunately it appears that the ANC has used CDWs as party organisers to further their own support, and not as independent assessors. Apart from being a shameful promotion of self interest and importance, such abuse only compounds the ANC's track record of neglect of the people's basic needs, including housing, utilities and jobs.
   CDWs should be independently organised and managed; they should not form part of the public service as such. Unbiased and objective inspection, assessment and reporting should be the training regimen and the goal of all CDWs.
   The SABP supports the concept of CDWs in principle, but believes that it is going to require a government of increased moral fibre and honesty to effectively facilitate a CDW system to the speedy benefit of the people.