performance assessment report
31 August 2006
Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana has blasted the Public Service
Commission for �misleading the public�, by not disclosing that he had demanded
performance assessments from his top management.
The Minister was reacting to a damning PSC report on performance management
showing that some departments, including Labour, were haemorrhaging. Addressing
the 6th South African Democratic Teachers Union national congress in
Johannesburg today, Thursday, 31 August 2006, Minister Mdladlana said: �At
least the PSC must be honest and admit that I demanded performance assessments
from the previous Director-General Rams Ramashia which I did not get.
�When I raised this matter, I was told that my leadership style was wrong
and that the reason I insisted on performance assessments was because of the
fact that I am Xhosa and Ramashia is Sotho�. Minister Mdladlana continued, �I
agree with the Pretoria News which carried the PSC�s report that many of the
senior managers sign performance assessments but no one goes back to check that
they do what they said they would do.�
�If heads must roll so be it. If we have to fire people, we would do so and
employ some of you here,� he said amid thunderous applause from delegates.
Enquiries:
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Issued by: Department of Labour
31 August 2006
