The PSC derives its mandate from sections 195 and 196 of the Constitution, 1996.

The PSC is tasked and empowered to, amongst others, investigate, monitor, and evaluate the organisation and administration of the Public Service.

This mandate also entails the evaluation of achievements, or lack thereof of Government programmes. The PSC also has an obligation to promote measures that would ensure effective and efficient performance within the Public Service and to promote values and principles of public administration as set out in the Constitution, throughout the Public Service.
 

    Director-General
Dr Dovhani Mamphiswana
 

Recent updates

• Assessment of the Management of Service Terminations and Pension Pay-Outs in the Public Service (pdf)

• Annual Report 2015/2016 (pdf)

• Building a Capable, Career-Oriented and Professional Public Service to Underpin a Capable and Developmental State In South Africa (pdf)

• Speech of Signing Of MOU PSC & MRM (pdf)

• Speech by the Chairperson of the Public Service Commission on the Occasion of the Signing of the Memorandum of Understanding Between the PSC and the Moral Regeneration Movement (pdf)

To Report  suspected acts of corruption in the Public Service,
call the toll free hotline at   0800 701 701.