Professionalising South African Public Service: A Narrative of Reforming for Ethic(s) of Accountability

Khali Mofuoa

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Abstract: It is no secret that deficit (or rather dearth) of accountability bedevils the South African Public Service. It is a cancer-like tumour that led to the demise of the apartheid South African Public Service in 1994. Now, like a slow poison, it is back steadily eating away the moral fabric of the new democratic South African Public Service. Its eye-catching, cancerous demeanour in the South African Public Service has not gone unnoticed as, on October 25, 2022, the South African Government released the National Framework Towards Professionalisation of the Public Sector to address it. Essentially, the Professionalisation Framework sets a deliberate reform agenda for professionalising the South African Public Service towards building a capable, ethical, and developmental state. The chapter explores the reform agenda for professionalising the South African Public Service as a narrative of reforming for ethic(s) of accountability (EoA). It argues that the reform agenda for professionalising the South African Public Service beams the searchlight of accountable governance into South African Public Sector, which is both timely and essential in fostering accountability in government practices. It is based on analysing and synthesising secondary data from relevant available literature sources in terms of a qualitative desktop research methodology.

Keywords: South Africa; public sector reform; public service; professionalisation; ethic(s) of accountability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.114916

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