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Public Service and Administration
30-day payment to service providers by DPW & DPME, with Deputy Ministers present ; Service Delivery Challenges: Centre for Public Service Innovation briefing
15 Mar 2017
Two presentations were made to the Portfolio Committee on the 30 day payment of service providers. The Chairperson dismissed any reports by Departments whose Executive leadership was not present at the meeting – this included the Departments of Home Affairs, Water and Sanitation and Rural Development and Land Reform. She, ...
Public Service and Administration
Frontline Service Delivery & Citizen-Based Monitoring; National School of Government New Curricula
8 Mar 2017
The National School of Government (NSG) presented a report on its newly designed curricula that aimed to advance careers, creating a capable and professional public service. It aimed to train and empower unemployed graduates and public servants for excellent service in the public sector, in line with the aims of ...
Public Service and Administration
Government employees pensions payout: PSC, GEPF & PIC inputs; Gender & Disability equity in public service: DPSA report
1 Mar 2017
The Department of Public Service and Administration briefed the Committee on the monitoring report on gender equity and people with disabilities in the public service.
The Department enlightened the Committee that every Department has to arrange a meeting for women senior managers during the last week of August to discuss ...
Public Service and Administration
Department of Planning Monitoring; Evaluation & NYDA & Statistics South Africa on their and Quarter 2 & 3 performance
8 Feb 2017
The National Youth Development Agency briefed the Committee on its Second and Third quarter performance 2016/17. In the second quarter, 45% of targets were exceeded, 14% of targets were within 80% of achievement, 27% were outside 80%, while another 14% would be measured in Quarter 4. In Quarter 3, 62% ...
Public Service and Administration
Statistics Act challenges: StatsSA briefing; Public Service Commission Amendment Bill: deliberations; Committee Report on PSC commissioner selection
30 Nov 2016
The Statistician-General briefed the Committee on the decision to amend the Statistics Act, although it had not yet been decided whether this would be done by way of an Amendment Bill or a complete overhaul and presentation of a new Act. This would aim to ensure better coordination of statistical ...
Public Service and Administration
Candidates selected to serve as Commissioners for Public Service Commission; Management Performance Assessment Tool (MPAT) results implementation: DPME briefing
23 Nov 2016
The delegation of the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation presented the report on the Management Performance Assessment Tool and the lessons learnt and support; and the Acting- Chairperson noted the report on the candidates selected to serve as Commissioners for the Public Service Commission.
The Acting- Chairperson presented the ...
Public Service and Administration
Public Service Commission on irregular appointments in the public service
16 Nov 2016
The Committee invited the Public Service Commission (PSC) to brief the Committee on irregular appointments in the public service, which reported that the number of substantiated irregular appointment cases (IACs) at the national department level had risen from two in 2014, to 32 in 2015. Between 2010 and 2015, the ...
Public Service and Administration
PSC Commissioners: interviews day 2
16 Nov 2016
The sub-committee continued to interview candidates for the three positions of commissioner in the Public Service Commission (PSC). Only 6 candidates were interviewed because one had withdrawn after receiving another appointment.
The questions asked were aimed at determining the candidates’ notions regarding their fitness and propriety for the post. They ...
Public Service and Administration
PSC Commissioners: interviews day 1; Committee Report on PSC candidate security checks & qualifications verification
15 Nov 2016
The sub-committee formed to interview the candidates for the three positions of commissioner in the Public Service Commission (PSC) asked probing and relevant questions in the course of a marathon session. It had short-listed 14 candidates based on set criteria, which included that a candidate must be ‘fit and proper’, ...
Public Service and Administration
Public Service Commission: Building a professional public service; Management of Service Terminations & Pensions Pay-outs; Public Service Regulations 2015
9 Nov 2016
Delegations from the Public Service Commission (PSC) and the Department of Public Service and Administration (DPSA) combined to advise the Portfolio Committee on the amendments to the public service regulations aimed at the professionalization of the public service, and to provide recommendations on how to avoid delays in pension payouts, ...