23 Feb 2016

Parliament has been informed that consideration for acting appointment is normally based on possession of the requisite qualifications and competencies for substantive appointment to a higher position.

Assistant Minister for Presidential Affairs and Public Administration, Mr Dikgang Makgalemele said this was derived from general order 14.10. that states that no officer shall be appointed to act in a vacant post unless he is qualified in terms of the scheme of service for substantive appointment to that post unless the director consents to such acting appointment.

Mr Makgalemele said officers on secondment to other government departments could act on senior positions if they possess the requisite qualifications and competencies for substantive appointment to such positions.

He added that in some instances, senior officers already in the department may belong to a different career path and hence not eligible to act in the vacant positions. Francistown South MP, Mr Wynter Mmolotsi had wanted to know whether officers on secondment to other government departments could act on senior positions at those departments ahead of full time officers who were even senior to them. Ends