Public Service Commission Conducts Anti-Corruption
Workshop in North-west Province
1 May 2000
The Public Service Commission (PSC) is to conduct the fourth
in a series of Anti-Corruption Workshops at the Mmabatho
Tusk Hotel in Mmabatho, North-west Province on Wednesday May
3 2000. The road show was launched in March following a
series of workshops on the Code of Conduct for Public
Servants and the current workshops, which were planned for
all provinces, have now been conducted in Mpumalanga,
KwaZulu-Natal and Northern Province.
The province-based workshops are part of the PSC programme
to facilitate the fight against corruption in the public
service, in accordance with the 1999 National
Anti-Corruption Summit resolutions that spelled out a co-ordinated
national anti-corruption strategy involving different
role-players in the country.
The North-west Province Premier will be the keynote speaker.
Other participants include Mr Johnny de Lange (MP), the
national and NW-resident commissioners from the Public
Service Commission and senior officials from the Office of
the PSC. In line with the Summit resolutions, participants
of the Anti-Corruption Workshops are drawn from various
sectors of society, including senior provincial public
servants, representatives of the private and public sectors,
religious, labour and professional bodies, civil society and
others.
The aims of the workshops are to: -
- ensure implementation of the summit resolutions
within provincial administrations;
- promote the establishment of cross-sectoral forums
and co-ordinate anti-corruption activities of all
provincial stakeholders;
- recommend legislative measures to give muscle to
anti-corruption structures; and
- encourage usage of provincial hotlines to blow the
whistle on defaulting civil servants.
Some of the main issues for discussion at the workshop
include:
- Progress on implementation of resolutions of the
National Anti-Corruption Summit;
- Regulatory framework of the public service;
- Monitoring of corruption and unethical behaviour;
- Risk Management; and
- The Protected Disclosure Bill
Subsequent to its involvement in the planning of the
Summit, the PSC was mandated by Cabinet to co-ordinate,
manage and monitor progress in the implementation of the
national anti-corruption strategy the country. Through these
Anti-Corruption Workshops, the Public Service Commission
continues to carry out its constitutional mandate of
promoting high standards of professional ethics in the
public service, transparency, clean governance and efficient
service delivery.
Issued by the Public Service Commission
Contacts :
Yvonne Mogadime 082-448-2385 (PSC Communications)
Smuts Matshe 082-806-8851 (NW Premier's Office Media
Liaison)
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