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Advocate Shamila Batohi addresses the Private Sector Symposium against Gender-Based Violence and Femicide. File photo
ILO

PSC launched to combat workplace GBVH 

The Private Sector Coalition brings SA businesses together to fight the scourge of gender-based violence and harassment

  • Derek Davey
15 min read
Public servants should forget about wanting to “serve as both administrators and political bearers at the same time”, said PSC commissioner Anele Gxoyiya. File photo
COALITION GOVERNMENT

Cabinet ministers can’t fire directors general, says Public Service Commission

Civil servants need to be ‘insulated’ from politics and allowed to do their work

  • Paddy Harper
5 min read
Students gathered outside Wits Great Hall calling on the university to voice their stance on Palestine. (Umamah Bakharia/M&G)
WITS PALESTINE SOLIDARITY COMMITTEE

Wits students call on university to divest from Israel

The students have given the institution’s management seven days to respond to a memorandum of demands, including information on its relations with Israel

  • Umamah Bakharia
2 min read
According to the department of public service and administration, a candidate will be subjected to a personnel suitability check before an appointment. (Paul Botes/M&G)
CRIMINAL RECORDS

State workers must disclose crimes

​Jacob Melusi Motha has not been the only convict to work in the public service

  • Athandiwe Saba
1 min read
President Jacob Zuma’s daughter
GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS

Probe into ministry appointment clears Thuthukile Zuma

The appointment of President Zuma’s daughter to a plum state job has been cleared by the PSC, despite its own warnings in a previous report.

  • Verashni Pillay
4 min read