DPSA
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.
(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 ...
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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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.
(bb) Iranian ...
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.
National and ...
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 ...
(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) ...
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.
As part ...
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 ...
(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 ...