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Civil service deemed inefficient

    JOHANNESBURG

    A new study by Namibia’s Labour Resource and Research Institute (LaRRI) has found the country’s civil service to be inefficient and in urgent need of restructuring, ‘The Namibian’ reported on Tuesday.

    The study was commissioned to look at the implications of public sector restructuring (especially commercialisation and outsourcing) for the labour movement. It found that widespread concern that government output in terms of productivity and service delivery did not justify the amount of financial and human resources invested in it.

    “At present the Namibian civil service employs about 70 000 people. Government now believes that the optimum size of the civil service should be 30,000, which means a more than 50 per cent reduction in the current figure,” it said.

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