BL Premium reports that in a sign that the government is finally moving to fill key positions and address concerns about capacity at the National Treasury, it has made two permanent leadership appointments in recent weeks.  

The cabinet recently announced Duncan Pieterse as the deputy director-general for economic policy; and Tshepiso Moahloli as the deputy director-general for assets and liability management at the Treasury — a post central to the management of the government’s borrowing activities at a time when the country is facing an unprecedented crisis due to the economic hit from Covid-19.  These divisions — along with other units inside the Treasury — had been without permanent heads for more than a year and even longer, despite a pledge last October to get the cabinet to provide a special undertaking to fast-track senior appointments at the department.  The appointments of Pieterse and Moahloli reduces the number of its most senior deputy director-general posts with acting heads, from five out of 10, to three.  However, other positions, notably the chief procurement officer and the accountant-general, without permanent heads.  Though the Treasury’s overall vacancy rate sits at 11.8%, the vacancy rate at senior management level was a much higher 19% at the end of November.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Lynley Donnelly at BusinessLive (paywall access only)

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