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Purloined: Kenyan President William Ruto’s government is being milked
by ghost workers. Photo: Facebook

Ghost workers haunt Kenyan state

Investigations show individuals receiving multiple salaries, with one case involving five salaries paid to a single ID

Integrating social media into CBM frameworks offers a promising solution for addressing the limitations of traditional CBM tools and mitigating the rising public discontent. (Fabian Sommer/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Social media can transform citizen-based monitoring and improve service delivery

By embracing social media as a tool for inclusive governance, the government can transform how it interacts with its citizens, creating a more participatory, transparent and…

The GGA team at GGA’s 10th anniversary celebrations.

GGA 10 Year Celebration

The next GGA milestone will hopefully be marked by wins against corruption

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

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

Sources have alleged that the removal of Nhlakanipho  Nkontwana was part of Siboniso Duma’s political goal to “insert his own people” in key positions of power in the economic development and tourism portfolio to maintain control, despite his exit from the department.
(Darren Stewart/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Struggle for purse strings in KZN economic department

Concerns have been raised that a head of department described as a ‘clean professional’ has been ousted for political reasons

The premier of North West, Bushy Maape (above), has not taken action against Relebohile Mafokane, the head of the province’s social development department, for not conducting performance assessments of senior officials.

North West official has unsigned contract

The provincial departmental head has also dodged the bullet for allegedly flouting the law

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

Government owes its suppliers more than R3-billion, public service quarterly report reveals

Late or non-payment by departments demonstrates little care for small businesses – says PSC commissioner

Relebohile Mafokane. File photo

Senzo Mchunu is implicated in job fraud

The minister supported the appointment of a senior North West official who only has a matric certificate, despite CV claims

(Graphic: John McCann)

SASSA tops corruption complaints as 347 cases opened in government

Some 347 cases of corruption were reported to the commission in the last quarter of 2021, with the majority of these relating to the South African Social Security Agency

Four officials suspended over R124m wasted by defence department

The PSC intervened after an annual report showed the department had incurred more than R124-million in irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure

The Public Service Commission (PSC) has highlighted the shortcomings of the government in service delivery, non-payment of suppliers, professionalisation and corruption and mismanagement in the public service.  (Photo by Papi Morake/ Gallo Images via Getty Images)

PSC lambasts poor government ethics and service delivery

Administrators exert political influence in the recruitment process, the Public Service Commission says

Controversy: North West Premier Job Mokgoro has come under fire for appointing Relebohile Mafokane. Photo: Felix Dlangamandla/Netwerk24

NW Premier Mokgoro ‘meddles’ in contentious R1.5m HOD appointment

Provincial HOD hired despite implication in ‘jobs-for-pals’ probe involving former minister Faith Muthambi

The panel found that, for the time being, further support should be confined to extending the social distress relief that was rolled out for the Covid-19 pandemic.

Real relief requires the reform of state recruitment

Covid-19 has exposed, among a host of other things, the glaring gaps that appear when the wrong people have been put in the job

Upwardly mobile: Lindiwe Sisulu hugs President Cyril Ramaphosa at an ANC National Conference in 2017. Sisulu dropped her own presidential campaign shortly before the conference. (Gulshan Khan/AFP)

Complaint: Sisulu in bid for presidency

The Cabinet minister is accused of surrounding herself with supporters to help get her to the top

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)

State workers must disclose crimes

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

Business

How to capture-proof the state

An autonomous public service is vital to cleaner government and better development prospects.

A bureaucratic government would automatically improve service delivery in South Africa and reduce related protests.

Public service system needs overhaul

The Public Service Commission this week told Parliament that the system of recruitment of heads of government departments needed a "rethink".

Damning corruption report

Damning corruption report

State departments failed to respond to 90% of corruption cases reported by the public on hotlines during the past financial year, a report says.

Zuma’s hotline one of the gripes

The PSC’s 2010 report on the state of the public service casts a sharp and often unflattering eye on the one-million-employee state sector.

Senior public service officials ‘more crooked’

Senior managers in the public service had a ”greater propensity” to commit fraud than employees in lower ranks, the Public Service Commission said.