Mandate
Legislative Mandate
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.
These values and principles are:
- A high standard of professional ethics
- Efficient, economic and effective use of resources
- A development-orientated public administration
- Provision of services in an impartial, fair and
equitable way, without bias
- Responding to people’s needs and encouraging the
public to participate in policy-making
- Accountable Public Administration
- Fostering transparency
- The cultivation of good human resource management
and career-development practices
- A representative public administration with
employment and personnel management practices based on
ability, objectivity, fairness and the need to redress
the imbalances of the past.
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