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News24 reports that the body that monitors the public service, namely the Public Service Commission (PSC), has not been classified as an essential service and will subsequently have difficulty finalising complaints against errant officials.
Dovhani Mamphiswana, PSC director-general, told MPs on Wednesday that the Covid-19 pandemic had "brought some challenges". He confirmed that the PSC was not listed as an essential service. During the lockdown, some of its officials were working from home, but many were apparently "not up to speed". As a result, the PSC would not meet its targets for the year and "might not necessarily" have all the engagements with the departments they had intended to. Furthermore, it will be difficult to finalise complaints against officials. On the topic of complaints, Mamphiswana is himself the subject of an investigation into allegations that he chaired a panel that appointed the mother of his child to the position of chief director for ethics at the PSC.
- Read the original of the report in the above regard by Jan Gerber at News24
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