Government slated over ’R11bn wasted on state employees who did nothing’

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The DA has condemned the R11 billion ’’wasted over the past four months on state employees who were not working’’, which is equivalent to 15.7% of the R70.6 billion the government was last month forced to borrow from the IMFNews.

’’According to National Treasury, the average salary in the public service is R393 000 per annum, or R32 750 per month.

In response to a parliamentary question posed by the DA, Mchunu, stated that “during the national lockdown, all public servants will continue to receive their full salaries”, even if they are not doing any work, Schreiber said. ’’To understand the full scale of the ANC’s determination to keep feeding its public sector patronage network, consider that the R11 billion wasted over the past four months on state employees who were not working is equivalent to 15.7% of the $4.3 billion that the government was recently forced to borrow from the IMF.

’’The DA will be writing to Mchunu to find out why the government did not require ’non-essential’ public servants to claim from the UIF-TERS system in the same way that it forced private employees to surrender their salaries.

 

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