There is nothing that focuses the mind more and enforces discipline than having to encounter tough times and being ill prepared during a trying period.
“We are in a tight spot,” admits Treasury Director-General Dondo Mogajane, while he describes as “painful” the decision not to implement the third year of the now-infamous 2018 public wage agreement. Furthermore, “as you are all aware… we have budgeted for no increase in remuneration for the next few years.”
The annual ritual of the Office of the Auditor-General releasing a post-mortem of the country’s public finances at all levels of the state — local, provincial and national — and its myriad entities, is the early detection system whose sounding of alarm bells has been ignored, and rang hollow, for so long. The release of the public sector audit outcomes has, unfortunately, turned into somewhat of a spectacle rather than an event that prompts introspection.
How unfortunate that in this adverse period of a public health predicament, with the accompanying economic downsides, frontline workers in the public service are told to tighten their belts. No matter which way the issue is packaged, the bitter sting lingers. It is made worse by the fact the government is only now becoming enlivened to the reality that it is the author of its own public finances dilemma.
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