2024-w548 - 25 March 2024

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

(1)What steps has her department taken to prepare the public administration for a smooth transfer of political power to new (a) national and (b) provincial coalition governments after the national elections on 29 May 2024, given that opinion polls unanimously project that no single political party will secure a majority in the 2024 elections; (2) whether her department is prepared to assist by facilitating meetings between opposition leaders and senior managers in the Public Service to prepare for a smooth transfer of political power to a new coalition government as it is the established practice in democracies around the world; 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 25 Mar 2024

1 (a-b) and (b)

Section 197 (1) of the Constitution states that “within public administration there is a public service for the Republic, which must function, and be structured, in terms of national legislation, and which must loyally execute the lawful policies of the government of the day”. The Code of Conduct for Public Servants also state under Section 12(f) of the Public ...

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2024-w466 - 25 March 2024

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

Whether her department has a policy on providing anonymised data from the Personal and Salary System and Multi-Agent System to academics, researchers and/or others in the public domain to enable external analysis, research and advice; if not, why does her department refuse to make the specified data publicly available in so far as it complies with the relevant provisions of the Protection of Personal Information Act, Act 4 of 2013; if so, what is the process for researchers, academics and members of the public to obtain access to the data?

Reply from the Minister of Public Service and Administration on 25 Mar 2024

The Department of Public Service and Administration (DPSA) has approved a Manual in terms of section 14 of the Promotion of Access to Information Act, 2000 (Act No.2 of 2000) (PAIA) which, amongst others, deals with and promotes the right to access records held by the DPSA, as a public body and sets out the procedures to be followed by members of the public ...

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2024-w513 - 20 March 2024

Makhoni Maria Ntuli to ask the Minister of Public Service and Administration

(a) What is the progress regarding the implementation of the e-government strategy and (b) on what date is it envisaged that services such as the Z83 form and other administrative processes will be digitised and/or automated?

Reply from the Minister of Public Service and Administration on 20 Mar 2024

a) What is the progress regarding the implementation of the e-government strategy?

The implementation of the National e-Government Strategy prioritises the implementation of e-Services as the first milestone towards digitalisation of government.

E-SERVICES

The following are some of the flagship e-services implemented by government.

National e-Services Portal developed by DCDT and SITA 

The National e-Governmental Portal initiative reinforces SITA’s e-Government Programme Imperatives, including transversal ...

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2024-w606 - 20 March 2024

Sibongiseni Ngcobo to ask the Minister of Public Service and Administration

With reference to his reply to question 187 on 1 March 2023, what are the details of the (a) make, (b) model, (c) year of manufacture, (d) date of purchase and (e) purchase price paid for each vehicle purchased by her department for (i) her and (ii) the Deputy Minister since 8 May 2019?

Reply from the Minister of Public Service and Administration on 20 Mar 2024

The Department of Public Service and Administration has purchased one (1) official vehicle for the Minister and two (2) official vehicles for the Deputy Minister since 8 May 2019. Details of the vehicles as purchased are as follows:

(i) Minister (Seat of office - Pretoria)

  1. Make: BMW
  2. Model: X3 sDrive20i
  3. Year of Manufacture: 2023
  4. Date of Purchase: 19 January 2024
  5. Purchase Price: R772 808.00 ...
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2024-w549 - 20 March 2024

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

(1)What (a) type of performance and/or incentive bonuses, excluding the 13th salary cheque exist in the Public Service and (b) amount was spent on the specified performance and/or incentive bonuses since 8 May 2019; (2) on what grounds were performance bonuses paid out to employees of government departments that recorded adverse audit outcomes and/or did not achieve their key performance indicators?

Reply from the Minister of Public Service and Administration on 20 Mar 2024

  1. (a) & (b)

The performance management and development system (PMDS) is underpinned by the notion of improving organisational performance and accountability. The PMDS is designed to ensure that the goals/objectives contained in a department’s Strategic Plan and Annual Performance Plan are cascaded into the performance agreements of employees.

Based on the prescripts, the following amounts were spent on performance and/or incentive bonuses from the ...

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2024-w550 - 20 March 2024

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

What (a) number of Public Service employees are currently on suspension in each (i) national and (ii) provincial government department, (b) is the average period that each employee has been on suspension and (c) is the breakdown of the total cost to the State for each (aa) financial year and (bb) month that the employees have been on suspension?

Reply from the Minister of Public Service and Administration on 20 Mar 2024

The number of Public Service employees currently on suspension, as directed in the question above, is reflected in the following two tables as captured on PERSAL:

i) National departments

Name of Department (i)

a) Number of employees on suspensions

b) Period

c) Cost to the State

aa) Financial Year

bb) Month/s/Period

Agriculture, Land reform and Rural Development

No Report

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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.

(bb) Iranian ...

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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.

National and ...

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