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'Explain': Roy Padayachie

These are the shocking figures released in Parliament by the Public Service Commission (PSC), which is blaming the departments for taking more than the prescribed 60 days to complete disciplinary hearings.

The figures relate to the 2010/11 financial year, the period under review.

According to the PSC, departments spent between R100,000 and R1-million on the salaries of each of the employees placed on suspension.

Correctional Services topped the list, paying R14-million to employees sitting at home.

The Justice Department followed with 69 employees on suspension receiving R11-million in salaries.

The SAPS's 869 officials on suspension were paid R8-million.

PSC director-general Richard Levin said the differences in the amounts paid by the departments to suspended officials resulted from the levels of seniority of those affected.

He said the reasons for suspending government employees ranged from financial misconduct, theft, fraud, misuse of state property, sexual harassment and sexual assault, gross negligence resulting in loss of state money to violation of tender processes.

The commission identified a number of challenges faced by departments in the management of suspensions and disciplinary hearings. These include inadequate training of key role players in the disciplinary procedure, leading to unnecessary lengthy periods of suspension. Another challenge was poor compliance with time frames by investigators and people who preside over disciplinary hearings.

It was also found that employees sit at home for lengthy periods, not rendering any service to the department.

One department in KwaZulu-Natal told the PSC it took 10 months to formulate charges when one of their employees was placed on suspension.

Levin said they were also alerting departments to the option of transferring the affected employee to another unit rather than have them sitting at home. "Departments are not making use of the option to transfer the employee," he said.

Department of Public Service and Administration director-general Mashwahle Diphofa said the department was now reviewing the disciplinary code and procedures to address the problems.

"Precautionary suspension should lapse after 60 days and disciplinary processes must continue with the employee at work."

DA public service spokesman Kobus Marais said Minister Roy Padayachie should appear before Parliament to explain what steps he was taking to tighten up the management of suspensions on full pay in the public service.

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May 3, 2012

tpaz

...and the rest of the wage bill has been paid to officials who do nothing in the office.
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May 3, 2012

MGEEZ

The problem is that there is poor management and a lot of nepotism in government resulting in Nepotism!!!
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May 3, 2012

xBusi

Can we afford to accept this any longer?
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May 3, 2012

mambaaai

if the mines were nationalised this kind of cancer would spread there as well....
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May 3, 2012

MGEEZ

The problem is that there is poor management and a lot of nepotism in government resulting in poor corporate governance!!!

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May 3, 2012

The-Rothschilds

mambaaai
if the mines were nationalised this kind of cancer would spread there as well....
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If the mines were nationalized, they would not make a cent and we will have an industry of Auroras.

I am not against nationalisation, but we all know under this corrupt government, such a transaction would be anarchy.
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May 3, 2012

somaartakeit

Ja ne, Jajaz do you still think its a right thing to do to vote anc?
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May 3, 2012

Bdoobs

@xBusi

Can we afford to accept this any longer?
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What the plan sis'..? I have a one, the problem is to get people to b.uy into it, tell anyone to vote DA and look them in the eye, you would see trauma in their faces, they turn to think, 'apartheid again'. All I can say this is the freedom our mothers and father, uncle and aunts died for.
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May 3, 2012

Kratos

lets see 52 mil spent on people not working
cost of e-toll 20 bil
plus the loss of money due to corruption...see a pattern ..
Stop paying suspended officials a salary, stop stealing from the state coffers...& this government will have the money for the e-troll
then again if they do that, then there will be no more money to steal & they will actually have to perform their duties to earn their exorbatant salaries.
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May 3, 2012

candilious

Then when its hot in the kithcen their turn to the tax payer se moer man. All these suspended of full leave pay should be allowed to work and repay back lost monies. Inorder for Gvmt to pay its debt to Scramral
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