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Toepassing van moraliteit in die Suid-Afrikaanse staatsdiens

David Fourie
Koers - Bulletin for Christian Scholarship/Bulletin vir Christelike Wetenskap | Vol 63, No 3 | a535 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/koers.v63i3.535 | © 1998 David Fourie | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 21 December 1998 | Published: 21 December 1998

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David Fourie, Skool vir Openbare Bestuur en Administrasie Fakulteit Ekonomiese en Bestuurswetenskappe Universiteit van Pretoria PRETORIA

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The application of morality in the South African public service

Change in the South African public service is unavoidable. The political environment dictates the change and the public servant of today faces a dynamic political environment in which political decisions should be executed. The conduct of the public servant is under constant scrutiny and therefore the morality of public servants should exist beyond time and should be supported by a system of values. Public servants are bound by the normative guidelines which restrain them from abusing the set rules and regulations. The contemporary South African public service is manned by officials who represent the whole spectrum of communities in South Africa - not only are they from different backgrounds, but the values of communities differ, reflecting on the morality within the public service. There should ideally be one system of values and norms for public servants, but the dilemma is that there are so many different communities. The question thus remains what or which values should be the guidelines for the public servant of today?


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