Department
Department of Public Service and Administration
key objectives
1. Receive a clean audit: Accomplished
2. Get Cabinet to approve Batho Pele rules: Accomplished
3. Balance the pay scale: failed
4. Mobilize a multidisciplinary team in alliance with universities for the National Development Plan: Accomplished
Analysis
Thulas Nxesi inherited a department that has long been in a critical position, with a low employment rate, dissatisfied workers and poor labor policies that many before him failed to change.
He hasn’t addressed the pay scale, and on average, top managers continue to receive the highest paychecks.
Nxesi this year revised Batho Pele’s revitalization strategy, which was approved by the cabinet in March. Launching the Batho Pele standards, Nxesi said the strategy will ensure that public services are delivered in a targeted, effective and efficient manner.
This year, the department initiated a multi-disciplinary team in partnership with the Universities of KwaZulu-Natal, Stellenbosch, Tshwane, Johannesburg and Venda, as well as the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Government and the National Planning Commission to review capacity building. of the government to promote the National Development Plan.
He has also held discussions with employers to promote employment equity.
Nxesi pushed for the amendment of the Employment Equity Act to force companies to take the transformation seriously. The Law has been approved in parliament and awaits the president’s signature to allow Nxesi to regulate compliance by companies.
minister says
The department received an unqualified audit result with no findings from the auditor general. An audit result without reservations and without findings is the cornerstone for building trust and integrity in state institutions. This is an improvement from the previous fiscal year of 2021-22, where the department had an unqualified audit result with findings.
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