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Table 8: Progress towards 2018/19 performance target
160 000 140 000 120 000 100 000
80 000 60 000 40 000 20 000
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149 411
Total Number of Interns, Learners and Apprentices Recruited into the Public Service
PUBLIC SERVICE
Provincial/ National Departments
Total Interns, Learners and Apprentices 2014/15
Total Interns, Learners and Apprentices 2015/16
Total Interns, Learners and Apprentices 2016/17
Total Interns, Learners and Apprentices 2017/18
Total Number Recruited during 2014 – 2018
Eastern Cape
2 502
561
2 352
1922
7 337
Free State
2 243
2 275
1 364
2370
8 252
Gauteng
575
10 443
12 434
4648
28 100
KwaZulu-Natal
1976
415
2 483
3053
7 927
Limpopo
2 849
2 835
3 281
3193
12 158
Mpumalanga
993
1 230
914
823
3 960
National
9 658
6 241
13 189
9165
38 253
Northern Cape
217
289
496
327
1 329
North West
908
1 074
938
1021
3 941
Western Cape
1 368
2 482
3 211
1631
8 692
NARYSEC
20 356
2 863
6 243
0
29 462
Total
43 645
30 708
46 905
28153
149 411
Africans constitutes 90%, Coloureds 7%, Whites 2% and Asian/Indians 1%.
People living with disabilities also con- stitute a designated group and are key beneficiaries of affirmative action mea- sures. Therefore one of the objectives of disability management in the Public Service is to ensure equal access to training and skills development oppor- tunities for people living with disabil- ities. According to the report, while some departments were able to reach the 2% policy target, most still struggle. National and provincial departments achieved, on average, below 2%. This indicates that the Public Service needs to improve recruitment strategies for the employment of people living with disabilities.
Employee retention shows that of the 75 058 individuals recruited in the 2016/17 – 2017/18 financial years, 16 866 secured employment within the Public Service. Of this total, 14 851 were permanent and 2 285 contract employment positions. The report fur- ther illustrates retention into employ- ment per sector. In this regard, the So- cial sector recruited 4 690 employees and retained 985, which is equivalent to 21% of beneficiaries. The Transport sector came second place at 14%, re- cruiting 3 574 and providing 497 ben- eficiaries with employment. Third is Human Settlements, which retained 8%. Although Education recruited the most beneficiaries (30 140), the sector
retained the lowest figure among nine sectors.
Progress towards the MTSF target
In line with the Programme of Action for Outcome 12: Sub-Outcome 1: A Public Service that is a career of choice, the DPSA committed in its Annual Perfor- mance Plan to support national and provincial departments to appoint 100 000 youth to internship, learnership and apprenticeship programmes. Ta- ble 8 above illustrates the annual per- formance towards the achievement of the MTSF target of 100 000. It also re- flects the contribution of national and provincial departments, as well as that of the National Rural Youth Service Corps (NARYSEC) Programme.
43 645
46 905
30 708
28 153
2014/15
2015/16 2016/17
2017/18 2014/15 -2017/18
Graph 2: Progress towards the MTSF target
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