New legislation aims to professionalise SA's public service

[Hanno Labuschagne]

New legislation aims to professionalise SA's public service

A professional, efficient and effective public service is key to a government’s ability to deliver on its mandate.

That’s why South Africa’s constitution requires that the public service be institutionalised as a profession.

[The Conversation]

 

[OkPlankton]

This means employing only the brightest, best qualified and most competent personnel, with a strong ethical orientation. It requires that civil servants perform their duties with diligence, care and empathy.

Lmao, the irony.

 

[r00igev@@r]

You get a leather couch, I get a leather couch, we all get leather couches.

 

[Guest 290922]

So they are aiming for Smooth Criminal. Corruption in Style.

 

[KleinBoontjie]

Appointments must be based on merit

Spelled BEE wrong

 

[borro]

So they are aiming for Smooth Criminal. Corruption in Style.

 

[TelkomUseless]

This means employing only the brightest, best qualified and most competent personnel, with a strong ethical orientation. It requires that civil servants perform their duties with diligence, care and empathy

Ha ha ha ha...

And what about the existing loafers/deadwood ? Are they going to be fired to make way for the " brightest, best qualified and most competent personnel, with a strong ethical orientation. It requires that civil servants perform their duties with diligence, care and empathy"?

 

[borro]

Ha ha ha ha...

And what about the existing loafers/deadwood ? Are they going to be fired to make way for the " brightest, best qualified and most competent personnel, with a strong ethical orientation. It requires that civil servants perform their duties with diligence, care and empathy"?

It’s the thought that counts)

 

[Goosfrabba]

Does this apply to ghost employees as well?

These people must think we are stupid to believe this

 

[Deandbn]

But it already is a fine efficient unbiased public service, why would they want to change something that has worked so well for so many years. The police for instance, so little crime and violence, the policemen so lean and mean and smart in their uniforms.. Need I go on..

 

[lkswan747]

OMG, what a load of drivel

 

[KikzAzz]

Is it 1 April?

 

[mojoman]

Is it 1 April?

All day every day here...

 

[DreamKing]

you don't need to be a Bsc, nor BA, nor Bcom holder ....... you only need to be an anc membership card holder.
that is the only qualification you need to apply for any government job.

 

[ForceFate]

Grand plans. Great plans, often derailed by elevating and serving the party above the country.

 

[ForceFate]

you don't need to be a Bsc, nor BA, nor Bcom holder ....... you only need to be an anc membership card holder.
that is the only qualification you need to apply for any government job.

Lot of people with relevant qualifications in government. However, many are disillusioned by lack of growth and vision, with those active in party politics preferred over their non-partisan counterparts. In some instances, you find a shop floor worker wielding more power than their managers.

 

[RonSwanson]

you don't need to be a Bsc, nor BA, nor Bcom holder ....... you only need to be an anc membership card holder.
that is the only qualification you need to apply for any government job.

...and a black skin, unless they need tokens.

 

[RonSwanson]

More plans. More promises. Sound like an election soon.

 

[Cosmik Debris]

Lot of people with relevant qualifications in government. However, many are disillusioned by lack of growth and vision, with those active in party politics preferred over their non-partisan counterparts. In some instances, you find a shop floor worker wielding more power than their managers.

Correct. Gwede Mantashe and Cyril Ramaphosa started off as trade union shop stewards. The power they wielded got them far and others see this. So no need for management qualifications at all. Shop steward is the way the workers have seen being the way to go.

 

[TheChamp]

Correct. Gwede Mantashe and Cyril Ramaphosa started off as trade union shop stewards. The power they wielded got them far and others see this. So no need for management qualifications at all. Shop steward is the way the workers have seen being the way to go.

Gwede and Cyril are politicians, can you tell the difference? But both did go to school and got their qualifications, not that it matters in the kind of work they are in.