00994pab a2200145 454500008004000000100002100040245006900061260000900130300001300139362000800152520058400160650003400744650001800778773005200796180718b1997   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aCarstens, Martin  aPromoting ethics amid major change: the South African experience  c1997  ap.363-67  aSep  aThe article stress that public administrators are fiduciaries of the public trust, but few studies in South Africa have examined their moral standards, or their attitudes about government ethics. There are few incidents so disproportionately harmful in the public sector as acts of unethical conduct. Public revelations of fraud and corruption can destroy the careers of both politicians and public servants. There are also ethical offences, such as passive resistance, which do not come to public light but which can have stifling effects on the implementation of new programmes  aCivil service - Africa, South  aCivil service  aInternational Review of Administrative Sciences