Because of past administrative failures, the some 78,000 affected public service workers such as nurses and teachers never got the relief they were entitled to under the law, Biden said.

The Director-General in the Department of Public Service and Administration, Yoliswa Makhasi, has told heads of departments in provinces and national departments that Monday was a normal working day.

SINGAPORE: Singapore’s civil service has been declared the best in the world, according to a new Oxford University study that ranked the public administrations of 120 countries.