{"id":5603,"date":"2026-09-09T20:36:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T18:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/?p=5603"},"modified":"2026-09-09T21:09:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T19:09:20","slug":"deputy-minister-kekana-leads-service-delivery-programme-to-zandspruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/2026\/09\/09\/deputy-minister-kekana-leads-service-delivery-programme-to-zandspruit\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputy Minister Kekana leads service delivery programme to Zandspruit\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Residents of Ward 114 in Zandspruit will access a range of essential government services during a planned Integrated Service Delivery Blitz to be held at the Zandspruit sports ground on Friday, September 11, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Integrated Service Delivery Outreach programme, to be led by Public Service and Administration Deputy Minister, Pinky Kekana, is part of Public Service Month (PSM). The month serves to remind public servants of what it means to serve communities and to assess the impact of government\u2019s service delivery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deputy Minister Kekana is encouraging residents to attend in their numbers to access the wide range of essential services being brought directly to their doorsteps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The outreach, aimed at addressing social and economic challenges, will bring together the Department of Home Affairs, South African Social Security Agency (SASSA), National Youth Development Agency (NYDA), Department of Employment and Labour, Department of Water and Sanitation, Pikitup, and other government entities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Residents will also have the opportunity to use the programme to share their day-to-day service delivery challenges directly with Deputy Minister Kekana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Public Service Month<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Public Service Month promotes the professionalisation of the public service towards building a capable developmental state that provides effective and efficient services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Objectives of PSM:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Remind public servants about what it means to serve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u2022Assess government\u2019s service delivery impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u2022Recommit and rededicate public servants to the ethos of Batho Pele.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Improve the morale of public servants by inculcating pride in their roles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Improve the health and wellness of public servants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u2022Integrate all September activities that government normally commemorates, such as Arbor Week, Heritage Month, Tourism Month, and Police Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year\u2019s programme is organised under the theme, \u201cProfessionalising the Public Service to Build Trust and Restore Confidence in Government.\u201d This underscores the urgent need to strengthen the capacity, integrity, and performance of the public service as a critical lever for improving service delivery and rebuilding citizen confidence in state capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Residents of Ward 114 in Zandspruit will access a range of essential government services during a planned Integrated Service Delivery Blitz to be held at the Zandspruit sports ground on Friday, September 11, 2026. The Integrated Service Delivery Outreach programme, to be led by Public Service and Administration Deputy Minister, Pinky Kekana, is part of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[39,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-service-delivery-improvement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603","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=5603"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5609,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603\/revisions\/5609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dpsa.gov.za\/thepublicservant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}