Luxury travel, free housing and domestic staff along with salaries in the R2m a year bracket are all in store for the politicians who woke up as freshly minted members of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s cabinet on Thursday. AfricaCheck has crunched the numbers and found that cabinet ministers will receive an annual salary of R2,401,633. Deputy..
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Whopping salaries and perks for new cabinet: here are the numbers – Spouses and children also set to score footed by taxpayers money
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See where your money goes! – R50 million a month is spent on salaries of 400 MP’s, some of which are sleepy in parliament, or just stay at home and do nothing on a working day
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The previous National Assembly speaker, Baleka Mbete, who was widely regarded as a somewhat inept person for the post she held, was worth R2,825,470 a year, amounting to a monthly fee of over R235,000. Then there is the deputy speaker who carries a R1,977,795 a year home that amounts to about R165,000 a month. The..
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Why must it always be a black and white thing? – SATAWU strike against salary differences between black and white mariners will shut down Transnet ports across SA
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The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu) said on Tuesday its members would shut down the country’s ports on Thursday as part of a strike against salary discrepancies between black and white mariners. Negotiations between the union and the Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) collapsed this week. If the strike goes ahead it..
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Dissatisfied municipal workers bring Durban CBD to a halt by obstructing streets with waste
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Durban’s central business area was brought to a halt when Durban Waste Removal Agency workers blocked the streets with solid waste.
Waste trucks full of garbage were used to dump into the streets. The action is in protest against raising old MK members salaries in the department.
MK members ‘salaries are apparently increased from R9,000 to R20,000 and it appears that several departments in the Durban municipality are following the same policy regarding MK members’ remuneration, but observers reckon MK members serving are working much less than the other workers.
Read the original article in Afrikaans on Die Vryburger
#EskomCrisis is a ticking time bomb: Gordhan’s only plan is to keep the lights on for election
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The ANC government does not have a plan to solve Eskom’s problems. Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan acknowledged that the ANC government did not have the political will to rectify the broken power entity caused by decades of mismanagement and corruption. Natasha Mazzone, DA MP, made these accusations that Gordhan’s only plan is to keep..
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This is how the ANC-cadres enriches themselves at the expense of the struggling SA taxpayers
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The head of an agency is reimbursed nearly R9 million during 2017 and another senior official worked only 3 months of his final year’s contract. The most senior executives in at least 24 government agencies pay more than R3 million each in the 2017-2018 financial year. At least five of the 24 CEOs each received..
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West Rand District Municipality that flout regulations by ploughing R77m into VBS can’t pay their 458 employees salaries this month
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The West Rand district municipality is one of 15 municipalities which made deposits with now-bankrupt VBS Bank despite an instruction from National Treasury forbidding them to do so. Municipal workers at the West Rand District municipality on the outskirts of Johannesburg were left in the lurch on Monday after not being paid their salaries. The..
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Seems like South-Africa’s Health Department has a major cash flow problem – Several Gauteng Doctors, Medical Interns Not Paid January Salaries
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Eyewitness News spoke to some interns who say that they were told that their January salaries will only be paid on 28 February.
Several Gauteng medical interns and community service doctors have contacted Eyewitness News claiming that they have not been paid their January salaries.
Eyewitness News has seen WhatsApp messages, emails and memos informing the doctors of this decision.
The doctors have been doing their community service at various hospitals in the province.
Eyewitness News spoke to some interns who say that they were told that their January salaries will only be paid on 28 February.
Medical interns at the Charlotte Maxeke Hospital say that they were sent a WhatsApp message a day before payment informing them that due to logistical reasons, payments won’t be made therefore they should make the necessary agreements with their banks.
A memo from Helen Joseph Hospital, seen by Eyewitness News, notifies the doctors that their January payments
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Struggling SABC that has been dependent on state aid for years has placed staff into a huge embarrassment by not paying their salaries
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Staff realized with shock that the SABC did not pay their salaries into their accounts on Tuesday. Apparently, the Broadcasting, Electronic, Media & Allied Workers Union sent a brief report confirming that they had received notice that no payments were made. A staff member apparently confirmed to the media that they had not received salaries…
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Municipal managers, which include a lot of technical bankrupt municipalities, now earn R3.9 million a year for doing nothing actually
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Municipal managers’ new salary structures have just come into force with the announcement that they will now “earn” R3.9 million a year. The second in command then gets about R3 million a year. In many cases, work is outsourced by several private companies, while officials do little work but still receive astronomical salaries. The huge..
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All aboard the money flight – SAA executive consultants paid R16 million salaries
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Embattled national carrier, South African Airways (SAA), has admitted to paying R16 million in executive consultancy fees. This includes R10 million for three personnel working on a six-month contract. Problems keep boarding SAA on a flight destined for collapse. This year alone, the airline received over R15 billion in government bail-outs. It’s been argued that..
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It pays to work for parliament – barman at Parliament earns R24000 a month!
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While Business Live reports a plan to by government to cut on the number of government employees through not replacing those who retire and encouraging voluntary retrenchments, Parliament itself offers extremely attractive opportunities…of course only for those who fall in the category of “formerly disadvantaged”.
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Cash strapped state airline SAA goes on spending spree
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Struggling state airline SAA is splurging millions on executives and consulting firms in a spending frenzy that has been described as “worrying”.
Its recently appointed chief executive, Vuyani Jarana, has said the increased expenditure is necessary to address a severe skills shortage.
The Mail & Guardian has established that SAA, which last week received yet another R5‑billion bailout from the treasury, is paying R25‑million to Deutsche Bank in a deal to analyse its financials and restructure its debt.
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Cabinet Ministers set for 4% pay rise as reward for tanking the economy
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Unfortunately, it’s not April Fool’s Day. We are deadly serious when we tell you that political heavyweights who’ve overseen a slump in the South African economy are set to receive a 4% pay rise. In a year of recession, junk-status and a declared tax shortfall of R50bn, it seems like our top brass have found..
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