Public Service and Administration Deputy Minister, Sindisiwe Chikunga, says public servants who were at the frontline of fighting the pandemic and succumbed to COVID-19 will be remembered for their commitment and service.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe salute these public servants for upholding the Batho Pele principles until the end and we extend our heartfelt condolences to their families,\u201d Chikunga said.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the recently held 18th CPSI Public Sector Innovation Awards ceremony, Chikunga said Coronavirus has had a major disruptive impact on people\u2019s lives – economically, socially and otherwise. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe are all navigating this new normal together. Most notable is the impact of the virus on many economies around the globe, characterised by shrinking economies, closing businesses and job losses, resulting in soaring unemployment levels and loss of livelihoods by millions of people around the world, and in our country,\u201d Chikunga said.<\/p>\n
Chikunga said the pandemic has highlighted systemic challenges, which require innovative solutions to fast track service delivery challenges.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the face of adversity, these challenges have given rise to the need for innovation and technology more than ever.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the education sector, we still need a lot of innovative solutions, which calls for our country to increase the budget for innovation… .\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are here to recognise and celebrate with great excitement the innovative and creative prowess by none other than our public servants zeal in finding solutions to service delivery challenges,\u201d Chikunga said.<\/p>\n
Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n This year, more than 50 entries were received for the awards from across the country.<\/p>\n The winners for the category of Citizen-Focused Innovations Awards are:<\/p>\n Pre-operative physiotherapy for patients following lower limb fractures \u2013 The Department of Health (Gauteng)<\/p>\n Innovations Harnessing Technology (ICT & Other Frontier Technologies) \u2013 BizPortal and the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission.<\/p>\n Replication and Adaptation of Innovative Solutions – Randfontein High School, Gauteng.<\/p>\n For the category of Trailblazer Award, the winners are: Thando Luyaba \u2013 BizPortal.<\/p>\n For the Special Ministerial Awards, the winners are: Recycled Blue Lights (Limpopo) and Prev Leak (Gauteng).<\/p>\n The winner of the GEMS Health Award is: Family Centred Tracheostomy Care (Gauteng).<\/p>\n Chikunga congratulated the winners and finalists, and wished them well as they take their projects forward. \u2013 SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Public Service and Administration Deputy Minister, Sindisiwe Chikunga, says public servants who were at the frontline of fighting the pandemic and succumbed to COVID-19 will be remembered for their commitment and service. \u201cWe salute these public servants for upholding the Batho Pele principles until the end and we extend our heartfelt condolences to their families,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-182184","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-sanews","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}