Mutshamaxitulu, Holobye wa Ndzawulo ya Vutirh eli bya Vanhu Hinkwavo, vatirhikiloni, vavhaki va hina. Ndzawulo ya swa Vutirheli bya Vanhu Hinkwavo yi langutela swo tlakusa vutlhari bya vatirhi va mfumo. Polokwane ANC eka 'Str ategy and tactics' eka 'developmental state' yi 'adopt' leswi landzelaka: (Translation of Xitsonga paragraph follows.)
[Ms J M MALULEKE: Chairperson, Minister for the Public Service and Administration, colleagues, our guests, the Department of Public Works is looking forward to finding strategies to increase the sharpness of the public servants. The Polokwane resolution on Strategy and tactics in developmental state, the ANC has adopted the following:]
The ability to translate broad objectives in programmes and projects and to ensure their implementation. These depend among others, on the proper training, orientation and leadership of the public service and on acquiring and retaining skilled personnel.
President Jacob Zuma has recently underlined the significance of the public service in building our society and economy. In his state of the nation address the President said:
Working with the people and supported by our public servants we will build a developmental state, improve from front counter staff in the provision of servicing all government departments.
He further went on to say: "We must be more professional in what we do."
Minister Trevor Manuel had this to say, "We have to concentrate on building a more competent Public Service administration. The 52nd National Conference of the ANC in December 2007 resolved that the ANC should lead and drive the process of the unification of the public administration in the three spheres of government into a single public service." In line with the above-mentioned resolution one of the last year Medium-Term Budget Policy Statements priorities is improvement of the effectiveness of the state, investment in human capacity, especially skills. What has been achieved with regards to the above-mentioned objectives?
Hi Xitsonga hi ri, mintirho ya vulavula. [In Xitsonga we say, actions speak louder than words.]
South African Management Development Institute was established and mandated as the training arm of government to professionalise, build capacity, and support career advancement in the public service. It has the statutory responsibility to arrange or oversee management and development training for the Public Service in national, provincial and local government. In terms of the new two-stream strategy it focuses on the 10 000 members of senior management service, and it ensures that the 250 000 junior and middle managers access at least one week of formal professional development per year. Samdi works with departments and external training providers to ensure that students from across government can get the best and more relevant training linked to their jobs within the Public Service.
Samdi offers target inductions to public servants and it has also ensured that it continues to capacitate the Public Service at all levels of responsibility. Skills have improved in the Public Service as a result of the intervention of Samdi, and its training programmes. By 2007 the President had issued a directive that Samdi should look closely at the issues of strategic intervention with a view to sharpening the content of the training that public servants receive in various institutions.
These directives led to the translation of Samdi in 2008 into a learning academy which is now called the Public Administration Leadership and Management Academy, Palama, whose mandate comes from the provisions of the Constitution and the obligations they imply for public servants. Its extended role is to assist through expanding the provision of high-quality assessment and training to improve public servants, competence and ethos; to provide assessments and certificates; to interact with other training institutions, either public or private; and to advise the Minister whether a training course should be a prerequisite for appointment or promotion in the Public Service.
Palama's response to the President's prioritisation of public service transformation and improvement is driven by our Minister, Richard Baloyi's four priority projects which are: tackling barriers to entry experienced by unemployed graduates and women who live outside the main centre of South Africa; instilling leadership qualities up and down the Public Service, thus ensuring the sharing of responsibility, skills and expertise across ranks; extending the reach of the massified induction training in order to give all public servants through the basics of their jobs; supporting the reconstruction and development of public service in post-conflict countries on the continent.
Against the backdrop of the President's very clear directive and in line with our Minister's priorities Palama stands ready for public servants looking for the training that will help them to be the best they can be. Public Service human resource managers responsible for careers and deployments are looking for the most relevant training for their quality training and skill provision for the Public Service in all three spheres. Ministers, MECs and DGs demand the best training for the people by those who know government requirements in the interest of better service delivery to all South Africans.
This transformation comes with the task of increasing the induction of the Public Service at junior, middle and senior management levels within tailor- made training programmes for all these levels. Palama is now the facilitator of all training programmes in the Public Service. This facilitation role means that Palama can offer training by itself and outsource services in institutions that it has accredited.
Hi Xitsonga hi ri, rintiho rin'we a ri nusi hove. [In Xitsonga we say, many hands make light work.] Ka Setswana ba re, Kgetse ya tsie e kgonwa ka go tshwaraganelwa. [In Setswana it is said, united we stand divided we fall.]
Hi xi ANC hi ri, 'together we can do more'. Hi khensa ngopfu loko ndzawulo leyi yi swi kotile ku humesa tiCommunity Development Workers, CDWs. (Translation of Xitsonga paragraph follows.)
[In our ANC culture we say, 'together we can do more'. We would like to thank this ministry for being able to establish Community Development Workers, CDWs.]
The Community Development Workers' concept was formed in 2003. The Ministry of Public Service and Administration and that of Provincial and Local Government are jointly responsible for co-ordinating and rolling out the CDW programme, ie. the CDW health facilitating participatory democracy within communities. The programme experienced problems in the beginning, but now it is a relatively viable programme.
TiCDW ta laha ndzi humaka kona eMoretela Local Municipality eNorth West ti pfune ngopfu vanhu lava a va nga ri na tipasi lava a va nga koti ku kuma mudende. Ti va pfunile ngopfu leswaku va kota ku fikelela tindzawulo leti a va nga koti ku ti fikelela.
Hi khensa meyara wa Moretela, Asnath Molekwa loko a va amukerile ehofisini ya yena, a va xavela na yunifomo leswaku vanhu va kota ku va tiva loko va nghena emitini ya vona. Hi khensile ku tirhisana na vona.
Eka tikomiti ta tiwadi, Holobye wa Ndzawulo ya swa Vutirhi hi kombela mi veka voko ngopfu eka Department of Provincial and Local Government, DPLG leswaku yi tiyisa voko ku dyondzisa tikomiti ta tiwadi vata kota ku twisisa hi ti 'Integrated Development Planning', IDP na ti 'Service Delivery Improvement Plan', SDIP leswaku risimu leri yimbeleriwaka hi va DA ri nga na swikireche hi mhaka ya vukorhokeri ri ta kota ku hela. (Translation of Xitsonga paragraphs follows.)
[The CDWs of Moretela Local Municipality in the North West, where I come from, have assisted many people who did not have identity documents to become eligible for pension grants. They helped them a lot in order to access those departments they could not access.
We express our gratitude to the mayor of Moretela, Asnath Molekwa, for having welcomed them in her office and for buying them uniforms so that people can identify them when they enter their households. We are thankful for working together with them.
Regarding the ward committees, the Minister for the Public Service and Administration requests that you support the Department of Provincial and Local Government, DPLG, so that it can put more effort into workshopping the ward committees to comprehend Intergrated Development Planning, IDP, and the Service Delivery Improvement Plans, SDIP, so that the whining and whingeing of the DA on service delivery can come to a halt.]
On international relations, regarding capacity building on the continent, the department continues to give technical support and a sustainability strategy to the Democratic Republic of Congo in conducting a public service census prior to the country's elections so that every public service project that adds value to the quality of life of that country's people could be sustained. The department and the government in this country demonstrate with this gesture that political stability hangs on public service stability. The public service in any given country undertakes and implements government projects and programmes so that social needs do not, on nondelivery, become political demands.
Hi ri eka n'wina va DA loko ku ri ni buku ya ntima, mi yi vona leswaku va ANC va ri i ya ntima, na n'wina mi yi vona leswaku buku leyi i ya ntima mi nga kaneti mi ri karhi mi yi vona. Mi nga vula leswaku buku leyi ha yi vona leswaku i ya ntima kambe vanhu a va koti ku yi vona loko va ri kule. A hi tsakela leswaku yi va ya xitshopana. Ku vula sweswo hi ta kota ku tirhisana hi teka vanhu va South Africa hi va yisa laha va faneleke kona. Ndza khensa. [Ku biwa mavoko.] (Translation of Xitsonga paragraph follows.)
[We are saying to the DA that if there is any good endeavour that the ANC is doing and is explicit, you should not deny it. You should not reject the naked truth, but appreciate ANC's efforts. You can suggest certain modifications on the programmes that are in place. By so doing, we shall be able to work together and take the people of South Africa where they want to be. Thank you. [Applause.]