ANC stalwart and business leader Sipho Pityana has called for an amendment to the Constitution to give more powers to the auditor-general and the Public Service Commission.Speaking at an ethics conference hosted by the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection‚ Pityana‚ chairman of AngloGold Ashanti‚ said the public service commission was ineffective and its legal framework did not give it sufficient authority to be effective.The effectiveness of the public service depended on the will of the executive to act on proposals and recommendations put before it, but this was not happening, he said.The two institutions — the Public Service Commission and the auditor-general — needed a drastic change in authority and legal framework."One of the critical institutions that we have in the Constitution is the Public Service Commission [but] it is ineffective and its legal framework does not give it sufficient authority to be effective..."A question must be asked how a politically partisan p...
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