Professionalizing the Public Sector in South Africa: Challenges, Opportunities and Prospects

Abstract

This paper examines the possibility of professionalizing the public sector in South Africa and its associated challenges, opportunities, and prospects. We argue that South Africa's public sector is characterized by a lack of skills, talent, and the consolidation of ethics. As a result, this has given rise to service delivery protests. This paper used a quality title for the search approach to answering the advanced question and conceptualized the concept of professionalizing relation to the public sector in South Africa. This paper employed a qualitative research approach. This paper reviewed the literature to broaden further the understanding of the professionalizing of the Public Sector in South Africa and its challenges, opportunities, and prospects. The paper revealed that issues such as cadre deployment, lack of investments in skills development, and corruption in the public sector had given rise to the need to professionalize the public sector to ensure efficient public service delivery.