Speaking during the employees’ general meeting with Minister Slumber Tsogwane this week, Khumomatlhare said the Ombudsman had powers to impose civil imprisonment on him for workers’ grievances that reach his office. “I cannot allow being imprisoned before accounting officers like the Town Clerk and the District Commissioner are imprisoned. The call for service delivery is serious and any worker who cannot keep up should better go home before he/she is dismissed from work,” he said.
Khumomatlhare encouraged accounting officers to attend to employees’ issues before they reach the Ombudsman. “I do not want any report during the phone-in programme concerning unresolved employees’ issues, otherwise the Town Clerk will have to tell me who should be dismissed. This is serious,” he said. He stressed that it must take those in charge only two weeks to clear all the issues, adding that all heads of departments must address staff meetings and meet concerned employees one on one, then give feedback to the ministry. “Employees must also make sure that they deliver to deserve the promotions they want, and those who fail to live up to the ministry’s expectations must pack and go,” he said.
