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.

As part ...

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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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2024-w4186 - 02 January 2024

Michael Steven Bond to ask the Minister of Public Service and Administration

(1)(a) What (i) are the reasons that a certain person (name furnished) was transferred to her department at the beginning of November 2023 and (ii) offence was the specified person charged with and found guilty at the Department of Human Settlements and (b) on what grounds did her department agree to the transfer despite the scathing 2021 Labour Court judgment and her department being the custodian of ethical standards and conduct; (2) what (a) are the reasons that the specified person was transferred into the post of Deputy Director of Performance Management and Development System when there is a current job dispute by an unlawfully terminated employee in the same post and (b) were the conditions of the specified person’s demotion from Chief Director to Deputy Director; (3) whether corruption is a dismissible offence in terms of her department’s consequence management policy; if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, what are reasons that the specified person not dismissed for dishonesty and corruption?

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

1. (a) (i) The employee was transferred to perform the functions of the Deputy Director: Performance Management and Skills Development.

(ii) The information and details of the misconduct which arose at the Department of Human Settlements (DHS) has not been submitted to the DPSA from the DHS.

(b) The Department managed the transfer in terms of section 14 of the Public Service Act which ...

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2023-w3859 - 29 December 2023

Mirriam Thenjiwe Kibi to ask the Minister of Public Service and Administration

What (a) measures has she put in place to ensure that the innovation from the Centre for Public Service Innovation (CPSI) is integrated as part of the Government plan to /professionalise the Public Service and (b) resourcing plans are in existence to increase the capacity of the CPSI?

Reply from the Minister of Public Service and Administration on 29 Dec 2023

a) A professional public servant in a rapidly changing and evolving governance environment requires the capacity to innovate and manage innovation, especially in a digitised public sector. As such the CPSI is working closely with:

  • NSG to introduce relevant capacity building courses such and Managing Innovation in the Public Service, Design Thinking and soon Strategic Foresight.
  • DPSA and other Departments such as DCDT ...
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2023-w4136 - 29 December 2023

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

Whether the process of conducting lifestyle audits on public sector officials yielded the intended results; if not, what urgent steps will be taken to curb the increasing corruption in the public sector; if so, (a) how and (b) what are the relevant details in this regard?

Reply from the Minister of Public Service and Administration on 29 Dec 2023

The implementation of lifestyle audits became compulsory from 1st April 2021 in the public service. The national departments, provincial departments and government components conduct lifestyle audits in their respective institutions and report annually to the Department of Public Service and Administration (DPSA).

The process of conducting lifestyle audits in the public service comprises three phases namely lifestyle review, lifestyle investigation, and lifestyle audit (quantification ...

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2023-w3556 - 29 December 2023

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

With reference to the latest report of the Auditor-General of South Africa to the Portfolio Committee on Public Service and Administration, wherein she highlighted that her department is lacking in the implementation of its oversight mandate over the departments, what (a) measures have been put in place by her department and (b) are the time frames for the implementation of the specified measures?

Reply from the Minister of Public Service and Administration on 29 Dec 2023

(a) and (b)

The Department of Public Service and Administration (DPSA) is guided by Section 41 (1) h (ii) which call for all organs of state to “co-operate with one another in mutual trust and good faith by “assisting and supporting one another”. The following are some of the specific measures that have been initiated to improve the oversight capacity of the department and ...

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2023-w4184 - 29 December 2023

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

(1)What (a) are the triggers and processes to periodically amend Public Service Regulations and (b) is the reason that Public Service Regulations 62 was amended to include operational reasons determined by her when she does not know the operational requirements for other executive authorities; (2) what (a) are the reasons that transfers were never prescribed in terms of section 14 of the Public Service Act, Act 103 of 1994, and only regulated now by the insertion of Public Service Regulations 62A and (b) are the reasons that this was not previously challenged when unilateral transfers were done in her department without regulations; (3) what has she found is the import that the definition of the public interest clause with regard to the Saloojee vs Minister of Police 2004 matter have on transfers when abused as punitive weaponised instruments against targeted Senior Management Service employees; (4) what are the reasons that (a) the proposed amendment to the transfer provision is overlapping with operational requirements reasons as such overlap allows for arbitrariness in decision making and (b) a conflict in decision making clause by a complicit functionary not included in the Public Service Act, Act 103 of 1994, as a necessary amendment to protect whistleblowers?

Reply from the Minister of Public Service and Administration on 29 Dec 2023

1. (a) The authority for the Public Service Regulations is contained in section 41 of the Public Service Act. The review of regulations is usually triggered by gaps or challenges identified, policy changes, strengthening processes or managing interpretational challenges, amongst others.

(b) The requirement to seek the Minister’s determination on secondments that exceed 12 months is to ensure that secondments do not affect service ...

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