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Article: Public servants yes, councillors no.(News)
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- Pretoria News (South Africa)
- Article date:
- April 24, 2008
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BYLINE: XOLANI MBANJWA
The Public Service Commission wants public servants to be prevented from serving as councillors at the same time as doing their regular jobs.
PSC chairman Professor Stan Sangweni said dual employment at municipal level - where many public servants also served as part-time local councillors - was detrimental to service delivery.
A PSC study into the practice in Limpopo and the Western Cape found that of the 1 887 public servants identified in these provinces, 660 were part-time councillors.
In its State of the Pubic Service for 2008 report released last week, the PSC urged the cabinet to take steps to close the ...