Public Service Commission Begins Workshop Series to
Support the National Anti-Corruption Programme
28 February 2000
To facilitate the fight against corruption by different
roleplayers, and implementation of the National Integrity
Strategy, the Public Service Commission (PSC) will be
conducting a number of workshops across the country. The
first of these Anti-Corruption Workshops will take place on
Tuesday February 29 2000 in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga.
The aim and purpose of the Mpumalanga workshop are-0 to
obtain a commitment from all stakeholders in the Mpumalanga
Province to deal with corruption; 0 to create a common
understanding of corruption in all its facets; 0 to develop
a clearly articulated provincial strategy to fight
corruption; 0 to recommend legislative measures to give
muscle to anti-corruption structures; 0 to send a clear
message that corruption will not be tolerated by government
or any other role-players; and 0 to encourage the usage of
the Mpumalanga corruption reporting centre and its toll-free
'BLOW THE WHISTLE ON CORRUPTION' HOTLINE, NUMBER: 080004993.
The planned Anti-Corruption Workshop Series comes in the
wake of resolutions passed at the National Anti-Corruption
Summit of 1999, where various sectors committed themselves
to promote and actively engage in the eradication of
corruption wherever it occurs, and to establish mechanisms
for combating acts of fraud, corruption and other
malpractices.
As in the Summit, participants of the workshops will be
drawn from various sectors of society. They include senior
public servants, representatives of the private and public
sectors, religious, labour and professional bodies, civil
society, the media and others. Proceedings of the workshop
will be led by the chairperson and other members of the
Public Service Commission, while the Premier of the province
will give a special address.
Subsequent to its involvement in the planning of the Summit,
the PSC was mandated by Cabinet to co-ordinate the
implementation of the resolutions. To this end the PSC is
currently facilitating the establishment of a co-ordinating
structure to oversee the national campaign against
corruption. As a follow-up the PSC recently tabled a
progress report on the National Anti-Corruption Programme to
the Portfolio Committee on Public Service and
Administration.
The involvement of all sectors of society in the national
anti-corruption campaign is motivated mainly by the
recognition by both government and civil society that
corruption adversely affects all sectors of society, impacts
most directly on the poor, corrodes the national culture and
ethos of democracy, and depletes the resources that are
needed to ensure economic prosperity, equality and a better
life for all.
The participants for the Anti-Corruption Workshops Series
are selected to further assist in promoting constitutional
obligations, namely, transparency, clean governance and
efficient service delivery for the benefit of all members of
the South African society, as well as in developing a
culture of zero tolerance to corruption.
Through these anti-corruption workshops the Public Service
Commission continues to carry out one of its Constitutional
mandates, that is, to promote high standards of professional
ethics in the public service.
Issued by the Public Service Commission
Communications Contact :
Yvonne Mannee Mogadime
Public Service Commission
P/Bag X121
Pretoria
0001
Tel: +27-(0)12-352 1196/7
Mobile: +27-(0)82 448 2385
Fax: +27-(0)325 8382
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