a) (i) (aa) Directors-General - 37 Nationally appointed; 8 Provincially appointed (Schedule 1 of the Public Service Act, 1994) - (Directors-General are appointed on contract for a term not exceeding five years)
(bb) Acting Directors-General - National 8 Directors-General are acting; Provincially 1 Director-General is acting.
(ii) (aa) Heads of Department: 87 appointed – (Schedule 2 of the Public Service Act, 1994) – (Heads of Department are appointed on contract for a term not exceeding five years)
(bb) Acting Heads of Department – 25.
(b&c) Officials are appointed to act from the date the post has become vacant – Period of Acting Directors-General Nationally by Department (data: as at 31 December 2020):
National Departments |
Post vacant date |
Duration vacant (months) |
Department of Social Development |
2017-05-31 |
43 |
Department of Water and Sanitation |
2017-11-30 |
37 |
Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development |
2020-10-31 |
2 |
Department of Military Veterans |
2018-06-15 |
31 |
Small Business Development |
2018-09-30 |
27 |
The Presidency |
2020-08-31 |
4 |
Communication and Digital Technologies |
2020-06-30 |
6 |
State Security Agency |
2018-04-30 |
33 |
Provincial Department |
Post vacant date |
Duration vacant (months) |
North West Office of the Premier |
2019-04-30 |
20 |
(b&c) Officials are appointed to act from the date the post has become vacant – Period of Acting Nationally by Department: (data: as at 31 December 2020):
Province |
Provincial Department |
Post vacant date |
Duration vacant (months) |
KZN |
Provincial Treasury |
2020-06-30 |
6 |
Transport |
2020-04-30 |
8 |
|
Northern Cape |
Provincial Treasury |
2014-10-31 |
74 |
Education |
2020-08-31 |
4 |
|
Roads and Public Works |
2020-07-31 |
7 |
|
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development |
2019-10-31 |
14 |
|
Environment and Nature Conservation |
2020-02-01 |
11 |
|
Economic Development and Tourism |
2014-10-31 |
74 |
|
Health |
2020-02-28 |
10 |
|
Eastern Cape |
Health |
2020-09-30 |
3 |
Rural Development and Agrarian Reform |
2018-09-30 |
27 |
|
Mpumalanga |
Agriculture, Rural Development, Land and Environmental Affairs |
2018-05-31 |
31 |
Public Works, Roads and Transport |
2019-10-31 |
14 |
|
Economic Development and Tourism |
2014-10-31 |
74 |
|
Education |
2019-08-31 |
16 |
|
Health |
2013-06-01 |
90 |
|
Cooperative Governance |
2020-02-29 |
10 |
|
Gauteng |
Community Safety |
2020-02-29 |
10 |
Health |
2020-10-01 |
3 |
|
Economic Development |
2020-11-30 |
1 |
|
Limpopo |
Education |
2020-01-31 |
11 |
Social Development |
2020-05-01 |
8 |
|
North West |
Agriculture and Rural Development |
2020-10-01 |
3 |
Health |
2020-01-13 |
12 |
|
Social Development |
2018-11-30 |
26 |
|