TimesLive reports that public servants who do business with the state will be fired if they don't give up their business interests by January next year.  

Ngoako Ramatlhodi, the Minister of Public Service and Administration, said on Thursday that government employees were informed last month that they had to regularise their business affairs by January.  The new regulations also bar public servants from accepting gifts from the public and companies that do business with state departments.  This is all part of the government's plan to clamp down on corruption in the public service.  Ramatlhodi's department has set up a unit to monitor compliance, track the activities of civil servants and to ensure that their private businesses were disclosed to the state.  "Among the measures we will take is to fire a person," he said.

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