The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic ushered unprecedented and abrupt changes into the traditional government operations. This has necessitated innovative government functions, policies and processes during and post the COVID-19 period to maintain public service delivery. Accordingly, the unmitigated spread of COVID-19 brought enormous costs for public resources. COVID-19 brought a litmus test of public sector disaster management's efficiency in various dimensions, which affect inter alia the national government, the provincial government, local government, and state-owned entities with varying degrees of repercussions. In a swift intervention, the South African government established a COVID-19 Command Council tasked with providing regular advisory services to the President and his Executive. Other strategic public administration measures include a lockdown with accompanying curfew and economic shutdown as of 26 March 2020. Thi