{"id":217186,"date":"2022-02-21T13:56:19","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T11:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/lifestyle-audits-being-implemented-across-government\/"},"modified":"2022-02-21T13:56:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T11:56:19","slug":"lifestyle-audits-being-implemented-across-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/lifestyle-audits-being-implemented-across-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifestyle audits being implemented across government"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Public Service and Administration Minister Ayanda Dlodlo says lifestyle audits are being implemented across the public service.<\/p>\n

The Minister said this when Ministers in the Governance, State Capacity and Institutional Development (GSCID) Cluster briefed the media on Monday, following President Cyril Ramaphosa\u2019s State of the Nation Address, just over a week ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn integral part to building an effective, corruption-free public service is the introduction of the lifestyle audits since 01 April 2021 which is being implemented across the public service.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe lifestyle audits in the public service became compulsory with the adoption of the Guide to Implement Lifestyle Audits in the Public Service.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said the Public Administration Ethics, Integrity and Disciplinary Technical Assistance Unit (TAU) at the DPSA provides implementation support to national and provincial departments and is monitoring the implementation of the guide.<\/p>\n

The Minister said lifestyle audits target those expensive brand-wearing public servants who clearly live beyond their means.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe process \u2026 starts with a declaration of interest for public servants, with that information that they have there, juxtaposed with what we pick up, if it actually tallies.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it does not tally, we then ask those who are responsible for a full scale investigation to determine whether or not the proceeds of whatever gains this individual have not declared have anything to do with corruption \u2026 we want to know what the lifestyle of that individual is sponsored by.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo you will find a public servant at Chief Director level wearing Chanel, having beautiful houses here and there, wearing [Salvatore] Ferragamo every other day and flaunting their wealth.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think those are the kind of people we need to be targeting because we would be paying lip service when we know that there is wealth that is unexplained of people at Director, at Chief Director level, who are living well beyond what you would determine as a salary that is prescribed by the public service regulations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dlodlo said linked to lifestyle audits is the Public Administration Management Regulations on Conducting Business with the State, Disclosure of Financial Interests and Ethics, Integrity and Discipline Technical Assistance Unit and the Office of Standard and Compliance, which are at an advanced stage.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe promulgation of the PAMA Regulations will ensure the proper implementation of the Public Administration Management Act, which provides for the prohibition of employees doing business with the State, lifestyle audits, and ensuring compliance with minimum norms and standards prescribed for the public administration,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Dlodlo said the department is working towards improving the protection of whistleblowers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fight against corruption requires that we take away the personal burden and high costs that come with being an honest public servant and South African.\u201d \u2013 SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Public Service and Administration Minister Ayanda Dlodlo says lifestyle audits are being implemented across the public service. The Minister said this when Ministers in the Governance, State Capacity and Institutional Development (GSCID) Cluster briefed the media on Monday, following President Cyril Ramaphosa\u2019s State of the Nation Address, just over a week ago. \u201cAn integral part […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217187,"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-217186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-sanews","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/lifestyle-audits-being-implemented-across-government.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217186","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=217186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}