Invitation to the National Anti-Corruption Hotline Workshop

07 March 2012

Infrastructure investments remain one of the main priorities of government’s mechanism towards reducing poverty and improving the quality of the citizens’ life. It is also an important aspect considered by the development community in the poverty alleviation process and the provision of more equitable opportunities, especially for rural areas. The Public Service Commission (PSC) has noted with great concern the challenges facing the plight of some of the children in the rural parts of the country to access essential services such as basic education. Education and rural development are the most important five apex priorities of the millennium development goals of government.

It is against this background that the PSC will embark on service delivery inspections to study access to education by rural children with specific reference to the availability of infrastructure to cross rivers. Inspections are meant to entrench a citizens and service-centred culture, and reinforce accountability across the Public Service. The PSC Commissioners will use these service delivery inspections to experience what is happening in service delivery sites, thereby strengthening the PSC’s oversight work.

The members of the media are invited to the following service delivery sites:
 

Issued by the Public Service Commission

For enquiries, please contact: Mr Humphrey Ramafoko; Director: Communication and Information Services; Tel: 012 352 1196; Cell: 082 782 1730; Email: humpreyr@opsc.gov.za; Or Mr Ricardo Mahlakanya; Deputy Director: External Communication; Tel: 012 352 1070; Cell: 079 769 7955; Email: RicardoM@opsc.gov.za