2027-w932 - 05 May 2027

Fikile Zachariah Majola to ask the Minister of Public Service and Administration

(1)Whether there is any position of (a) chief executive officer, (b) chief financial officer and/or (c) chief operating officer that is currently vacant in each entity reporting to him; if so, (i) how long has each specified position been vacant and (ii) what is the reason for each vacancy; (2) Have the vacancies been advertised; if so, (a) were interviews done and (b) on what date will the vacancies be filled; (3) (a) what is the total number of persons who are currently employed in the specified positions in an acting capacity, (b) for what period has each person been acting in each position and (c) has any of the specified persons applied for the positions?

Reply from the Minister of Public Service and Administration on 5 May 2027

DPSA

  1. The Department of Public Service and Administration (a) does not have a chief executive officer position, (b) the chief financial officer position is filled (c) does not have a chief operating officer position
  2. N/A
  3. N/A

PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION (PSC)

The Public Service Commission (PSC) is an independent Constitutional body, and its budget is appropriated via the Minister of Public Service and Administration.

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2024-w140 - 11 March 2024

Bridget Staff Masango to ask the Minister of Public Service and Administration

(1)With reference to her reply to question 3197 on 29 December 2023, what progress has been made regarding consequence management of the (a) 5 812 public servants who fraudulently received Social Relief of Distress grants and (b) 33 833 public servants who fraudulently received other social grants; (2) whether (a) her department and (b) the SA Social Security Agency launched an investigation to determine whether the wrongful payments form part of a scheme to defraud the State; if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, what are the relevant details?

Reply from the Minister of Public Service and Administration on 11 Mar 2024

(1) The following progress has been made regarding consequence management of:

(a) 5 812 public servants who fraudulently received Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grants: In September 2022, Ms BJ Memela, the Chief Executive Officer of the SA Social Security Agency issued letters to Government Departments at National and Provincial levels advising them of the identification of civil servants on the Covid 19 SRD database ...

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2024-w467 - 11 March 2024

Leon Amos Schreiber to ask the Minister of Public Service and Administration

(1)What is the total amount of public funds spent by the State in opposing the application seeking the North Gauteng High Court to declare the practice of cadre deployment unconstitutional and unlawful; (2) what are the reasons justifying the use of public funds to defend the policy of a political party?

Reply from the Minister of Public Service and Administration on 11 Mar 2024

1. The Department of Public Service and Administration (DPSA) has spent no public funds in opposing the application seeking the North Gauteng High Court to declare the practice of cadre deployment unconstitutional and unlawful.

The DPSA opposed an application by the Democratic Alliance against the Minister for Public Service and Administration (the Sixth Respondent) in the High Court of South Africa, Gauteng Division, under ...

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2024-w345 - 07 March 2024

Siviwe Gwarube to ask the Minister of Public Service and Administration

What are the full details of all (a) sponsorships, (b) donations and (c) financial transfers provided for lawfare and/or any other purposes to (i) her, (ii) her department and (iii) officials of her department by any (aa) Qatari, (bb) Iranian and/or (cc) Russian organ of state, organisation and/or resident since 1 January 2021 up to the latest date in 2024 for which information is available?

Reply from the Minister of Public Service and Administration on 7 Mar 2024

The following details are available:

1. The (i) Minister, (ii) The Department of Public Service and Administration (DPSA) (iii) and the officials of the department have not received any (a) sponsorships, (b) donations and (c) financial transfers provided for lawfare and/or any other purposes from the following:

(aa) Qatari organ of state, organisation and/ resident since 1 January 2021 up to date.

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2024-w49 - 07 March 2024

Rosina Ntshetsana Komane to ask the Minister of Public Service and Administration

(1)With reference to her statement that there is a high rate of unqualified senior management officials, how (a) many unqualified officials have been identified and (b) were they employed without relevant qualifications; (2) what is the impact of unqualified senior management officials on public service; (3) (a) what steps will she take to correct this and (b) by when?

Reply from the Minister of Public Service and Administration on 7 Mar 2024

  1. (a)

As of 31 December 2023, there are 1,779 Senior Management Service (SMS) members whose qualifications are not listed on PERSAL. The total composition of SMS members in the Public Service as of 31 December 2023 was 9,278. This implies that 19% of the composition did not have qualifications listed on PERSAL.

The table below presents the detailed information sourced from PERSAL.

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2024-w3857 - 08 January 2024

Teliswa Mgweba to ask the Minister of Public Service and Administration

What are the relevant details of the (a) progress and (b) preliminary findings of the National School of Government skills audit on technical skills announced in the State of the Nation Address reply by the President of the Republic, Mr M C Ramaphosa?

Reply from the Minister of Public Service and Administration on 8 Jan 2024

a) The NSG has made significant progress on the implementation of the Skills Audit Project since the pronouncement by the President in his reply to the debate on the 2023 SONA. The NSG has signed an MOU with the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) on the 11th of August 2023 to formally establish their collaboration in conceptualising and executing this project. The HSRC is ...

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2024-w1635 - 08 January 2024

Mimmy Martha Gondwe to ask the Minister of Public Service and Administration

(a) For what total number of days has a certain person (name and details furnished) been on suspension, (b) what are the (i) circumstances surrounding the specified person’s suspension and (ii) reasons that the person was suspended and (c) what total amount has the State spent to date on the continued suspension?

Reply from the Minister of Public Service and Administration on 8 Jan 2024

(a) As at 25 May 2023, the specified employee has been on suspension for approximately 654 working days owing to: 1) delays imposed by the employee in respect to disciplinary process, which was kickstarted within the prescribed 60 days period, and 2) the passing away of the chairperson of the disciplinary committee.

(b)(i) The employee is alleged to have committed serious misconduct (29 charges) ...

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2024-w3770 - 05 January 2024

Mimmy Martha Gondwe to ask the Minister of Public Service and Administration

(1)What (a) total number of officials in the Public Service were implicated in irregular appointments in the (i) 2019-20, (ii) 2020-21, (iii) 2021-22 and (iv) 2022-23 financial years, (b) number of the officials were (i) dismissed and (ii) not dismissed from the Public Service following an investigation into their involvement in irregular appointments and (c) are the reasons that the officials were not dismissed; (2) (a) in which national and/or provincial departments are the specified officials employed and (b) what positions did/do the officials hold in each case?

Reply from the Minister of Public Service and Administration on 5 Jan 2024

Discipline management and appointments are a decentralized function across the Public Service. Any investigation into alleged violations of appointment processes would be managed directly by departments and the DPSA would not be privy to the contents of such investigations into irregular appointments and/or information on dismissals with regard to irregular appointments. The information sought would therefore be accessible via the departments directly.

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2024-w3280 - 05 January 2024

Constance Nonhlanhla Mkhonto to ask the Minister of Public Service and Administration

Whether her department has a welfare unit in place that offers financial support to public servants who are about to leave the work system onto pensions; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?

Reply from the Minister of Public Service and Administration on 5 Jan 2024

The Employee Health and Wellness (EHW) Strategic Framework for the Public Service calls for all departments to provide pre-retirement support which includes advising employees to access financial planning advise from authorised advisors. This is a decentralised function that is not centrally located within the DPSA.

Pre-retirement financial counselling services is therefore one of the key aspects of the EHW Framework and is implemented in ...

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2024-w4055 - 02 January 2024

Mimmy Martha Gondwe to ask the Minister of Public Service and Administration

(1)Whether the current Director-General (DG) of her department previously worked for Gauteng Provincial Government (GPG) before being appointed at her department; if so, who was the DG of her department at the time when the current DG was appointed as GPG Head of Department: Community Safety and Liaison; (2) whether a certain person (name and details furnished) had the relevant experience, knowledge or qualification in Human Resources to be appointed; (3) what has she found had been the performance of the Human Resources Management Department during the person’s tenure from 1 April 2022 to date; (4) whether the irregular appointment of the specified person was reported to the Public Service Commission; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details; (5) whether the irregular appointments were reported to the DG: Presidency; if not, why not; if so, what action has her department taken against these irregular appointments within the Office of the DG to date?

Reply from the Minister of Public Service and Administration on 2 Jan 2024

(1) The current Director-General (DG) of the department previously worked for Gauteng Provincial Government (GPG) before being appointed at the department. The DG of the department at the time when the current DG was appointed as GPG Head of Department: Community Safety and Liaison was Professor Richard Levin.

(2) The person met the requirements as the person was appointed to act in terms of ...

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