About 9,000 public servants are still allowed to do business with the state
Last year, public servants were given the option of ceasing to do business with the state or resigning from their government jobs over a six-month period
Cross-checking among different databases within the government allowed the Department of Public Service and Administration to establish that 11,516 public officials were registered with the central supplier database and were in a position to conduct business with an organ of state. By the end of February 2,536 of these individuals had resigned from the public service, Public Service and Administration Minister Faith Muthambi said in her budget vote speech in the National Assembly this week. The department matched the information on the Central Supplier Database, which contains the information of all registered government suppliers and which is operated by the office of the chief procurement officer within the Treasury, with the government’s personnel data. "We are currently following up with departments to assess if there are any remaining public servants who have not resigned from the companies they were associated with," Muthambi told MPs. The public service regulations were amend...
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