1.6 million public servants will have to be retrained

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The 1.6 million people who will belong to the soon-to-be-created single public service will all need to be retrained, Public Service Minister Lindiwe Sisulu said in Sandton on Monday.

"... Each one, we would like to train into a passionate, professional, public servant," Sisulu told academics.

For this reason, the government had revived its idea of training for government officials, and set October 21 as the date for the launch of a countrywide school of government.