General
Other
General
- Annexure A - Application to perform other remunerative work
- Code of Conduct for Public Service Employees
- Directive on conducting business with an organ of state (amended Annexure A)
- Directive on Conducting Business with an Organ of State 2024
- Directive on human resources management and development for public service professionalisation
- Directive on other categories of employees designated to disclose financial interests, 2021
- Directive on Other Remunerative Work Outside an Employees Employment, 2024
- Directive on the form to be used by members of SMS and HODs to disclose financial interests, 2018
- Directive on the Institutionalisation of the Ethics Officer Function, 2024
- Ethics Committee Guide 2019
- Ethics Committee Charter Template, 2025
- Explanatory Manual - My guide to completing the financial interest disclosure form
- Guide for public service employees who require Witness Protection, 2024
- Guide on Conducting Business with an Organ of the State
- Guide on Lifestyle Audits, 2021
- Guide on managing gifts, 2019
- Guide on managing other remunerative work, 2025
- Guide on reporting of unethical conduct, 2018
- Guide on the prevention and management of conflicts of interest
- Public Administration Management Act 2014
- Public Service Act (up to 2007)
- Public Service Regulations, 2016 (as amended 2023)
Codes
Ethics Committee
Establishing the ethics office
Conflict of interest management & financial disclosures
- Public Service Regulations, 2016 (as amended 2023)
- Guide on the prevention and management of conflicts of interest
- Directive on other categories of employees designated to disclose financial interests, 2021
- Directive on Other Remunerative Work Outside an Employees Employment, 2024
- Directive on conducting business with an organ of state (amended Annexure A)
- Guide and Procedures on Conducting Business with an Organ of the State
Gifts
Financial disclosures
Lifestyle reviews & lifestyle audits
Other remunerative work
Whistleblowing Establishing safe reporting channels
Other
- Annexure A - Application to perform other remunerative work
- Directive on human resources management and development for public service professionalisation
- Directive on Other Remunerative Work Outside an Employees Employment, 2024
- Directive on the form to be used by members of SMS and HODs to disclose financial interests, 2018
- Ethics Committee Charter Template, 2025
- Guide for public service employees who require Witness Protection, 2024
- Public Service Act (up to 2007)
General
Codes
Conflict of interest management & financial disclosures
Investigations
Other
Strategic Work
Strategic work is done once in 3 years. This work integrates ethics into the organisation’s long-term vision, governance systems, decision making, and stakeholder engagement.
Institutionalisation
Everyday Work
The institutionalisation of ethics is the core role of the ethics officer or the everyday work. The focus of institutionalisation is on how to make ethics real in the organisation so that it becomes part of the organisational culture.
INSTITUTIONALISATION
Making Ethics RealIn The Organisation.
The work of the ethics officer is to manage the ethics programme of the organisation.

