Question NW3619 to the Minister of Public Service and Administration

Reply:

(1)(a) Number of public servants who were found to be doing business with the state in 2020-21 financial year is 484. Out of this number 8 officials were appointed in the state entities in an official capacity.

(b) Number of public servants who were found to be doing business with the state in 2021-22 financial year is 181.

(c) Number of public servants who were found to be doing business with the state in 2022-23 financial year is 366.

(b) The value of the business in respect of each public servant conducting business with the State can only be determined after finalization of a court process where the court will pronounce on losses.

(2) The following are the government departments in which the specified public servants are employed:

National Departments	Provincial Departments
1. Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development 2. Basic Education 3. Correctional Services 4. Employment and Labour 5. Environmental Affairs, Forestry and Fisheries 6. Health 7. Higher Education and Training 8. Human Settlements 9. International Relations and Cooperation 10. Justice and Constitutional Development 11. Military Veterans 12. Mineral Resources and Energy 13. National Treasury 14. Office of the Chief Justice 15.Office of the Public Service Commission 16.South African Police Service 17. Statistics South Africa 18. Social Development 19. Tourism 20. Traditional Affairs 21. Water and Sanitation	KwaZulu-Natal 1. Community Safety and Liaison 2. Education 3. Health 4. Office of the Premier 5. Transport Gauteng 1. Community Safety 2. Education 3. Health 4. Sport, Arts, Culture and Recreation North West 1. Community Safety and Transport Management 2. Education and Sports Development 3. Health 4. Office of the Premier 5. Public Works and Roads Eastern Cape 1. Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs 2. Health 3. Office of the Premier 4. Provincial Treasury 4. Social Development 5. Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture 6. Transport	Limpopo 1. Education 2. Health Mpumalanga 1. Education 2. Health 3. Public Works, Roads, and Transport Free State 1. Education 2. Health 3. Police, Roads, and Transport 4. Social Development 5. Sport, Arts, Culture and Recreation Northern Cape 1. Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development 2. Cooperative Governance, Human Settlements and Traditional Affairs 3. Education 4. Economic Development and Tourism 5. Health 6 Social Development Western Cape 1. Education 2. Health 3. Provincial Treasury

(3) The Department of Public Service and Administration (DPSA) monitors the implementation of the prohibition on public servants who are conducting business with the State through the Central Supplier Database (CSD). Upon receipt of the report from the CSD, the DPSA forwards a list of identified public servants to the departments in which they are employed. These departments are required to provide the DPSA with progress made on implementing the prohibition, including on action taken against those public servants who were found guilty of conducting business with the state.

Based on the reports received, the following varied action were reported to have been taken against public servants:

• Final written warnings.
• Contract were terminated.
• Dismissal
• Some public servants were appointed after the transactions for which payments made had already occurred, as a result no sanctions were imposed against them.
• Other public servants resigned from their departments before their hearing could commence.
• Most of the cases are still under investigation and the DPSA constantly make follow ups on the progress from the affected departments.

The DPSA formed a Task Team with the South African Police Service and National Prosecuting Authority to assist departments to act against employees conducting business with the State. Seven (7) public service employees employed by SAPS were charged and convicted of conducting business with the State under Section 8 of the Public Administration Management Act, 2014. These employees were dismissed from SAPS.

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