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Abstract
South Africa has experienced tremendous growth and development during the past fifty years since the establishment of the Union. The public service itself has participated in this growth and development and many of the ultimate successes can be attributed to a stable and experienced public service. Unfortunately this growth and development induced the establishment of a conglomerate of institutional manifestations to cover all the diversities in societal development. Since April 1980 the government has embarked upon a full‐scale rationalisation of a) institutional devices, b) personnel procedures and remuneration, and c) the multitude of outdated and outmoded laws and regulations. These moves will naturally create new organizational manifestations, institutional relationships and human relations. The emergence of new organizational overlays can be expected. If these emerging problems can be anticipated and solved prematurely, it can be expected that South Africa will be one of a very few countries who succeeded in the rationalisation of its public services.