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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
COALITION GOVERNMENT

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

  • Paddy Harper
5 min read
“Our municipalities have a crisis of poor financial management or planning to attract revenue, and they need to be capacitated there,” Amos Masondo said.
DIRECTORS GENERAL

Editorial: Service delivery hit by DG circus

The extraordinary turnover of directors general has systematically weakened government performance and costs a fortune in salaries.

  • Editorial
2 min read
Work hard
DIRECTORS GENERAL

Millions spent on out-of-work DGs

A high turnover of government’s senior civil servants has led to poor performance and as much as R44-million a year for them to twiddle their thumbs.

  • Verashni Pillay
  • Laura Grant
7 min read
The high turnover of Cabinet ministers often leads to the untimely displacement of directors general.
DIRECTORS GENERAL

A tale of two directors general

Because of the ANC’s factions, ministers often don’t trust the public servants who came before them.

  • Verashni Pillay
4 min read
The Sita head office near Pretoria
DIRECTORS GENERAL

Exiled DGs held in government’s ‘Siberia’

What does the government do with its inconveniently placed DGs? Banish them to the State Information Technology Agency, of course.

  • Verashni Pillay
  • Laura Grant
6 min read