The Department of Public Service and Administration says it is focusing on three burning issues - the implementation of the professionalisation framework for the public sector, the problem of long precautionary suspensions which unnecessarily cost the taxpayer money, and the efficient management of vacancies in the sector.

The Department of Public Service and Administration says it is focusing on three burning issues - the implementation of the professionalisation framework for the public sector, the problem of long precautionary suspensions which unnecessarily cost the taxpayer money, and the efficient management of vacancies in the sector.

DPSA describes public sector professionalisation as “burning issue”

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Inefficiency costs lives: the case of the EC department of education

The reality of the public education system as it pertains to the Eastern Cape province - one of South Africa’s poorest provinces - is that incompetence and corruption go on for long without punishment, and it is most frequently the children who are enrolled in its public schools that bear the brunt of these ills, writes Siphokuhle Mkancu

The reality of the public education system as it pertains to the Eastern Cape province - one of South Africa’s poorest provinces - is that incompetence and corruption go on for long without punishment, and it is most frequently the children who are enrolled in its public schools that bear the brunt of these ills, writes Siphokuhle Mkancu

President Cyril Ramaphosa chaired a meeting of the National Anti-Corruption Advisory Council at Tuynhuys on Thursday, 18 May 2023, as part of sustaining government’s response to the recommendations of the […]

President Cyril Ramaphosa chaired a meeting of the National Anti-Corruption Advisory Council at Tuynhuys on Thursday, 18 May 2023, as part of sustaining government’s response to the recommendations of the […]

President welcomes NACAC work towards building a corruption-free SA

SA universities corruption: problem more widespread than initially thought

Unisa is not the only university currently experiencing governance problems. Professor Jonathan Jansen says that universities have become so politicised that they are vulnerable to corruption. Political party leaders, he argues, use students who represent their parties through the Student Representative Council to advance corrupt agendas and usurp decisions made by councils overseeing the institutions.

Unisa is not the only university currently experiencing governance problems. Professor Jonathan Jansen says that universities have become so politicised that they are vulnerable to corruption. Political party leaders, he argues, use students who represent their parties through the Student Representative Council to advance corrupt agendas and usurp decisions made by councils overseeing the institutions.

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