{"id":330715,"date":"2019-07-23T09:37:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T07:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=330715"},"modified":"2019-07-23T09:37:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T07:37:03","slug":"south-africa-has-established-an-ethics-enforcement-unit-to-audit-government-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/330715\/south-africa-has-established-an-ethics-enforcement-unit-to-audit-government-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa has established an &#8216;ethics enforcement unit&#8217; to audit government employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Public Service and Administration, Senzo Mchunu, has announced that a new departmental unit will be responsible for conducting lifestyle audits on government employees.<\/p>\n<p>Responding in a recent parliamentary Q&amp;A session, Mchunu said that the newly established Public Administration Ethics, Integrity and Disciplinary Technical Assistance Unit will conduct ethics profiles on all employees in the public administration.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the mandate of this unit is to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Support and provide technical assistance for the management of ethics, integrity and disciplinary matters relating to misconduct in the public administration;<\/li>\n<li>Develop norms and standards for the above;<\/li>\n<li>Build capacity around the disciplining of misconduct;<\/li>\n<li>Strengthen oversight of ethics, integrity and discipline; and to intervene in cases where systemic weaknesses are identified;<\/li>\n<li>Promote ethics and integrity; and<\/li>\n<li>Cooperate with other institutions and organs of state.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;As such, this unit is the legal custodian of all integrity testing information and is responsible for lifestyle audits and integrity testing in all spheres of government,&#8221; said Mchunu.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the unit is currently incubated in the Depart of Public Service and Administration, with efforts underway to fund and staff it properly, through a process of internal reprioritisation and reorganisation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The first phase will commence from 1 September 2019, and will include lifestyle audits as a function,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/330709\/state-security-agency-wants-south-africas-controversial-secrecy-bill-back-on-the-table\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">State Security Agency wants South Africa\u2019s controversial \u2018secrecy bill\u2019 back on the table<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Public Service and Administration, Senzo Mchunu, has announced that a new departmental unit will be responsible for conducting lifestyle audits on government employees.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":325583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-330715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330715"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330763,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330715\/revisions\/330763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}