{"id":1287,"date":"2020-03-20T11:55:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T09:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/?p=1287"},"modified":"2020-03-20T11:56:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T09:56:56","slug":"batho-pele-awards-suspended-between-because-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/2020\/03\/20\/batho-pele-awards-suspended-between-because-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Batho Pele awards suspended because of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The National Batho Pele Excellence Awards (NBPEA), scheduled <\/span>that was scheduled to take place on 27 March 2020 <span style=\"color: #000000;\">at the Sandton Convention Centre<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">has been postponed indefinitely.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The decision by the Executive Committee (Exco) of the Department of Public Service and Administration chaired by Director-General, Ms Yoliswa Makhasi<\/span>,<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> come after President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the package of measures to limit the spread of the COVID-19, which is reported to be caused by the Sars-CoV-2 virus. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The purpose of the annual NBPEA is to entrench the transformation and professionalism in the public service<\/span>, r<span style=\"color: #000000;\">ewarding excellent service delivery<\/span>, <span style=\"color: #000000;\">recognising the contribution by public servants across Government, <\/span>and adds <span style=\"color: #000000;\">towards service delivery improvement.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Batho Pele Excellence Awards (NBPEA), scheduled that was scheduled to take place on 27 March 2020 at the Sandton Convention Centre has been postponed indefinitely. The decision by the Executive Committee (Exco) of the Department of Public Service and Administration chaired by Director-General, Ms Yoliswa Makhasi, come after President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}