Monday, March 19, 2007

Home Affairs to get tough on their officials

By Chanel September
19 March 2007

The Home Affairs Department in the Western Cape has roughly 60 officials facing disciplinary action.

The department has nationally taken action against 600 officials for corruption and mismanagement.

Spokesperson Khulekani Ntshangase confirmed the Western Cape figure but added that not all cases are related to corruption.

Ntshagase says that there are people in the department who are corrupt, incompetent and have been fired.

The support intervention task team was seat up to fix the department so that it can achieve its best mandate in terms of delivery.

A report completed by the task team stated that corruption was a challenge facing the department.

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