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Purloined: Kenyan President William Ruto’s government is being milked by ghost workers. Photo: Facebook

Ghost workers haunt Kenyan state

Investigations show individuals receiving multiple salaries, with one case involving five salaries paid to a single ID

  • Eyaaz
3 min read
Integrating social media into CBM frameworks offers a promising solution for addressing the limitations of traditional CBM tools and mitigating the rising public discontent. (Fabian Sommer/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Social media can transform citizen-based monitoring and improve service delivery

By embracing social media as a tool for inclusive governance, the government can transform how it interacts with its citizens, creating a more participatory, transparent and stable society

  • Des Erasmus
6 min read
The GGA team at GGA’s 10th anniversary celebrations.

GGA 10 Year Celebration

The next GGA milestone will hopefully be marked by wins against corruption

  • Derek Davey
7 min read
Public servants should forget about wanting to “serve as both administrators and political bearers at the same time”, said PSC commissioner Anele Gxoyiya. File photo

Cabinet ministers can’t fire directors general, says Public Service Commission

Civil servants need to be ‘insulated’ from politics and allowed to do their work

  • Des Erasmus
5 min read
Sources have alleged that the removal of Nhlakanipho Nkontwana was part of Siboniso Duma’s political goal to “insert his own people” in key positions of power in the economic development and tourism portfolio to maintain control, despite his exit from the department. (Darren Stewart/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Struggle for purse strings in KZN economic department

Concerns have been raised that a head of department described as a ‘clean professional’ has been ousted for political reasons

  • Des Erasmus
7 min read