Chairperson the Public Service Commission has a critical role to play in the efficient management of the function of government. The commission has a constitutional duty to guard and promote the principle of the public administration, as set out in the section 195 of the Constitution. This includes a high standard of professional ethics in the public service and to ensure that public administration is development oriented amongst other things.
It is therefore important that the men and women who get appointed to the Public Service Commission are of a sound mind and are wired in, correctly; in terms of appreciating the role of the commission and can play a role in advancing our developmental interest. Ordinarily we would support the name of a capable woman to be appointed to the Public Service Commission, so despite the fact that the qualities of the position - her character is not what the Public Service Commission need at the moment. She left the job as a mayor of Msunduzi
Local Municipality under a cloud of corruption and the municipality was put under administration under her watch.
We would therefore not support people with a tainted past to come and oversee the work of the public service. The public service is littered with incidences of corruption, of abuse of power by senior managers, of harassment of those who oppose rogue leadership elements. The commission has been silent on this issue for a very long time. We would therefore want a commission that has teeth to bite; we do not support the recommendation. Thank you.