Diploma in Openbare Aanspreeklikheid

Welcome to the Diploma in Public Accountability. This Higher Education Diploma is designed to help you ​develop and improve the competencies and skills you need to follow a career in the public sector or in a public service environment.

Employees in public service organisations – such as municipalities, departments, and institutions – who are entrusted with p​ublic resources must be accountable to the public for both effectiveness and efficiency in service delivery and in transparency, in compliance with the regulatory framework.

The diploma gives you the opportunity to:​

• Enhance your capacity and capability to do the work required of you;
• Make a positive difference in the communities you serve through enhanced competencies;
• Comply with the public administration and management competency requirements as set for your current or envisaged positions;
• Combine studies with workplace demands;
• Gain a higher education qualification; and,
• Embark on a qualification path that keeps track with career progression.

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The content of the two-year diploma programme is structured as follows:

The following modules are compulsory:

Level 5 - 6 (HEQF) - The learning outcomes are achieved by means of seven modules in Year 1 and six modules in Year 2. 120 credits are obtainable per year. The modules are:

• Public Accountability 1 & 2

• Managing Institutional Capacity 1 & 2

• Managing Institutional Performance 1 & 2 

• Managing Institutional Collaboration 1 & 2

• Institutional Conduct 1 & 2

• Compliance and Control 1: Budgeting

• Compliance and Control 1: Asset and Procurement Management

One of the following elective modules must be selected in Year 2:

• Compliance and Control 2 or

• Public Financial Accounting 2

   

The combined learning outcomes of the first and second - year modules correspond to the learning outcomes of the Unit Standards of the Municipal Regulations on Minimum Competency (MMC) levels (RSA, Government Gazette 29967, 2007), as amended (RSA, Government Gazette 41996, 2018) of the Local Government: Municipal Finance Management Act 56 of 2003.

The combined learning outcomes of the second-year modules correspond with the learning outcomes of the Competent Level of Qualifications and of Knowledge and Expertise, as defined in Annexure B, Local Government Senior Management Framework of the Local Government: Regulations on Appointment and Conditions of Employment of Senior Managers (RSA, Government Gazette 36223, 2013).