81 - Jakes Gerwel, President’s Office submission to the Presidential Review Commission, 25 September 1997.

It may also serve some explanatory purpose to mention that the President, in concurrence with his Accounting Officer, has consistently held the view, sometimes with great pressures to the contrary , that the staff complement should be kept as lean as efficiency allows. One outflow of this, was great caution against the seductive power-proffering temptations of an accrual of extra departmental functions, competencies and powers.