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Impeached public protector advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane denies owing the Public Protector South Africa (PPSA) money for her accommodation at the Bryntirion Estate which also houses the president and his deputy.

Impeached public protector advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane denies owing the Public Protector South Africa (PPSA) money for her accommodation at the Bryntirion Estate which also houses the president and his deputy.

The health dept is set to spend nearly R500-million on a ‘suspicious’, possibly irregular lease contract for its ‘unsafe’ new head office.

There is now a backlog of a whopping 3,000 disciplinary cases in the public service

TimesLIVE understands Sam Vukela reported for duty on Monday for the first time since July 2020, when he was suspended by public works minister Patricia de Lille.

Minister in the presidency Mondli Gungubele and public works minister Patricia de Lille have lost another bid to prevent suspended director-general Sam Vukela returning to work.

Two suspended directors-general, one in a mediation and at least six acting DGs. And as this snapshot of service delivery departments shows, around half of the top departmental officials managing billions of rands alongside policy-making and implementation are director-general newbies appointed...

Minister in the presidency Mondli Gungubele has told MPs in parliament he intends to challenge a ruling in favour of suspended public works director-general advocate Sam Vukela returning to work.

The opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) is calling for the immediate withdrawal and setting aside of the appointment of the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure (DPWI) acting director-general Alec Moemi by the Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure Patricia de Lille given what the DA says is his poor track record and a waste of taxpayers money. In a statement, DA Shadow Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure Samantha Graham-Maré said Moemi’s appointment raises a l...

The DA wants the appointment of Alec Moemi as acting Department of Public Works and Infrastructure director-general to be withdrawn and set aside.