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News24 reports that suspended government officials will no longer sit idly at home while they continue to get paid, according to Department of Public Service and Administration (DPSA) Minister Mzamo Buthelezi.
His department is taking a new directive for discipline management, including the transfer of suspended officials to other departments or units. Buthelezi announced the move while launching Integrated Public Service Month in Pretoria on Monday. He said: “(With) these transfers, the department wants to ensure that while every senior and qualified and competent official is undergoing disciplinary processes, they don't just sit at home on suspension but they are transferred to other departments or units for them to use their skills and qualifications to benefit that unit while they are on suspension.” He added: "Our new directive on discipline management encourages timely hearings and precautionary transfers to ensure compliance with applicable timeframes for resolution processes." Buthelezi said several departments had been selected for intervention and had since resolved a significant number of long-overdue suspension cases. According to 2022 reports, 259 government employees on precautionary suspension had cost taxpayers R130 million that year. In 2023, Gauteng government departments spent more than R25 million to pay people suspended for prolonged periods. At the time, a Department of Correctional Services official spent 883 days on suspension with full pay while waiting for his disciplinary hearing to be finalised.
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