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Purloined: Kenyan President William Ruto’s government is being milked by ghost workers. Photo: Facebook
AFRICA

Ghost workers haunt Kenyan state

Investigations show individuals receiving multiple salaries, with one case involving five salaries paid to a single ID

  • Oliver-Twist Amani
3 min read
Integrating social media into CBM frameworks offers a promising solution for addressing the limitations of traditional CBM tools and mitigating the rising public discontent. (Fabian Sommer/picture alliance via Getty Images)
AUDITOR GENERAL

Social media can transform citizen-based monitoring and improve service delivery

By embracing social media as a tool for inclusive governance, the government can transform how it interacts with its citizens, creating a more participatory, transparent and…

  • Lesedi Senamele Matlala
6 min read
The GGA team at GGA’s 10th anniversary celebrations.
AFRICAN GOVERNANCE ARCHITECTURE AGA

GGA 10 Year Celebration

The next GGA milestone will hopefully be marked by wins against corruption

  • Derek Davey
7 min read
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
Sources have alleged that the removal of Nhlakanipho Nkontwana was part of Siboniso Duma’s political goal to “insert his own people” in key positions of power in the economic development and tourism portfolio to maintain control, despite his exit from the department. (Darren Stewart/Gallo Images via Getty Images)
CLEAN AUDIT REPORT

Struggle for purse strings in KZN economic department

Concerns have been raised that a head of department described as a ‘clean professional’ has been ousted for political reasons

  • Lyse Comins
7 min read
The premier of North West, Bushy Maape (above), has not taken action against Relebohile Mafokane, the head of the province’s social development department, for not conducting performance assessments of senior officials.
BOITUMELO MOILOA

North West official has unsigned contract

The provincial departmental head has also dodged the bullet for allegedly flouting the law

  • Khaya Koko
6 min read
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
ANELE GXOYIYA

Government owes its suppliers more than R3-billion, public service quarterly report reveals

Late or non-payment by departments demonstrates little care for small businesses – says PSC commissioner

  • Eunice Masson
3 min read
Relebohile Mafokane. File photo
BOITUMELO MOILOA

Senzo Mchunu is implicated in job fraud

The minister supported the appointment of a senior North West official who only has a matric certificate, despite CV claims

  • Khaya Koko
7 min read
(Graphic: John McCann)
ANELE GXOYIYA

SASSA tops corruption complaints as 347 cases opened in government

Some 347 cases of corruption were reported to the commission in the last quarter of 2021, with the majority of these relating to the South African Social Security Agency

  • Eunice Masson
3 min read
BUFFALO CITY

Eastern Cape owes SMEs more than R2-billion

Small businesses are on their knees

  • Chris Gilili
5 min read
BURSARY SCHEME

Four officials suspended over R124m wasted by defence department

The PSC intervened after an annual report showed the department had incurred more than R124-million in irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure

  • Khaya Koko
2 min read
The Public Service Commission (PSC) has highlighted the shortcomings of the government in service delivery, non-payment of suppliers, professionalisation and corruption and mismanagement in the public service. (Photo by Papi Morake/ Gallo Images via Getty Images)
BRUNO LUTHULI

PSC lambasts poor government ethics and service delivery

Administrators exert political influence in the recruitment process, the Public Service Commission says

  • Chris Gilili
3 min read
Controversy: North West Premier Job Mokgoro has come under fire for appointing Relebohile Mafokane. Photo: Felix Dlangamandla/Netwerk24
BOITUMELO MOILOA

NW Premier Mokgoro ‘meddles’ in contentious R1.5m HOD appointment

Provincial HOD hired despite implication in ‘jobs-for-pals’ probe involving former minister Faith Muthambi

  • Khaya Koko
3 min read
ANC FACTIONS

Q&A Sessions: Royalty takes over at the Public Service Commission

Somododa Fikeni tells Nicolene de Wee about his new portfolio, his days as a herd boy in the Eastern Cape and being homeless for three weeks in the US

  • Nicolene de Wee
5 min read
The panel found that, for the time being, further support should be confined to extending the social distress relief that was rolled out for the Covid-19 pandemic.
CADRE DEPLOYMENT

Real relief requires the reform of state recruitment

Covid-19 has exposed, among a host of other things, the glaring gaps that appear when the wrong people have been put in the job

  • Thokozani Chilenga Butao
4 min read