Guest: Commissioner Vusumuzi Mavuso: Public Service Commission (PSC)

Guest: Janine Erasmus, Website Editor at Corruption Watch

At one time or another, most of us have been on the receiving end of a public service we were promised, that never materialised. While there are undoubtedly pockets of excellence in the public service, South Africans still speak about the negative experiences they’ve had. These complaints range from poor service at hospitals, to parents struggling to get their children into the right schools, to the long queues at government offices, or police who don’t take the rights of crime survivors seriously. But the president has now stepped in, signing into law the biggest changes the public service has seen since the start of South Africa’s democracy.