MINISTRY OF PUBLIC SERVICE AND ADMINISTRATION
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
QUESTION FOR WRITTEN REPLY
QUESTION NO.: 1055
DATE OF PUBLICATION: 17 MAY 2013
Mr S J F Marais (DA) to ask the Minister for the Public Service and
Administration:
(1) Which directors-general and senior staff, in all government
departments, have not declared all their financial interests as at 26
April 2013;
(2) (a) how many performance contracts with directors-general in each
department have not been signed as at 26 April 2013 and, in each case,
(b) what are the names of these directors-general?
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REPLY
(1) Financial Disclosure Forms of Directors-General and other senior
managers in government departments for the period 1 April 2012 to 31
March 2013 were supposed to reach the relevant EAs by 30 April 2013.
Copies of these forms had to be submitted to the Public Service
Commission (PSC) by the due date of 31 May 2013. The PSC is currently
compiling a Fact Sheet in compliance with the Financial Disclosure
Framework. This Fact Sheet will contain information on the forms
received and those outstanding. Therefore, the information requested
by the Honourable member will be contained in the Public Service
Commissionâs report anticipated to be tabled in Parliament by the end
of August 2013.
(2) The due date for filing the performance agreements (PAs) of all Heads
of Department for the 2013/2014 financial year was end of June 2013.
The PSC is currently preparing a Factsheet on Compliance with the
Filing of Performance Agreements of HoDs and its report will be tabled
in Parliament by end of August. The same will be made available to me
around that time.
Furthermore, the Public Service Commission (PSC) monitors the (PAs) of
(HoDs) in the national and provincial spheres of government. In this
regard the PSC maintains a database of the PAs of HoDs which are filed
by HoDs and their Executive Authorities (EAs).
In terms of Chapter 4 of the Senior Management Service (SMS) Handbook,
all senior managers (including HoDs) in the Public Service should
conclude PAs with their supervisors by the end of May of each
financial year. In the case of HoDs, EAs should then file the PAs of
their HoDs with the PSC by the end of June. Newly appointed SMS
members should conclude their PA within the first three months after
assuming duty and in the case of HoDs those PAs should immediately be
filed with the PSC.