President Cyril Ramaphosa says the government is stepping up efforts to prevent abuse of state funds meant for the poor by public representatives.
One of the measures implemented to correct this is the launch of a new public administration ethics, integrity and disciplinary technical assistance unit, earlier in the month.
Ramaphosa said the unit would also refer corruption cases to government’s Anti-Corruption Task Team and follow up with departments to ensure criminal cases involving public servants were made disciplinary cases. In collaboration with the multi-agency Fusion Centre, the unit was also expected to assist with identifying employees in priority cases investigated by law enforcement authorities.
The president said some public servants had taken the view that doing business with, or unduly benefiting from, the state was permissible for them, their friends and families, provided there has been no illegality; this had to change.
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