Lydia Lamisi Akanvariba, the Minister of State for Public Sector Reforms, has announced plans to lead a retirement age reform to tackle age fraud in the public sector.
The Minister stressed the need for a system where every child is assigned a unique number at birth, which will be used to identify them from birth through education, public sector employment, and retirement.
In an interview with Citi News following a meeting with the Deputy Minister for Public Service and Administration of South Africa, Pinky Sharon Kekana, Lydia Lamisi Akanvariba stated that the Public Sector Reforms Secretariat will collaborate with other agencies to establish an identification-at-birth policy to address retirement age fraud in the sector.
“If there’s a way that, from birth, you can be given a certain number, we use to track you from birth, up to the time you will be entering the services. Up to the time you will be going on retirement, it is easy for policy formulation and easy for planning. You don’t even need a census.
“I will be working in collaboration with other ministries like the Ministry for Gender, Health and Local Government to see what policy proposal we can put together to make sure that we’re able to do this and it will be easy,” Lydia Lamisi Akanvariba said.
The Minister of State further hinted at a review of the public service code of conduct.
She stated that the current code of conduct and ethics must be updated to address contemporary challenges, an action the sector will take soon.
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