The department of public service and administration is in the process of identifying senior officials who are underqualified for their positions, which could result in some of them losing their cushy government jobs. Public Service and Administration Minister Senzo Mchunu told City Press that this was a huge leap towards professionalising the public service department and ensuring that efficient individuals were appointed to key positions.
For doctors and nursing colleagues, Sister Hilda Masango is a “light, a star and a miracle” in these dark days of the Covid-19 pandemic, and for her patients, she is a “voice in this time of isolation”. Despite several underlying illnesses, which could be her death sentence at any time, Masango has been working tirelessly in the intensive care unit at Netcare Montana Hospital in Pretoria since the outbreak of the pandemic last year.