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 The department of basic education, which achieved only 47% of their targets, had the third highest spending on performance rewards for senior staff  

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This emerged from the 2011/12 annual reports for national government departments, Democratic Alliance spokesman Kobus Marais said.

“An analysis of the available information on performance targets in the various departmental annual reports shows that national government departments spent, on average, 96.5% of their budgets, but achieved only 52% of their targets.

“Senior managers were, however, rewarded well for this mediocrity,” he said in a statement.

The reports showed that R4.1 billion was spent on the salaries of 4279 permanent employees on senior management level (levels 13 to 16).

A further R378 million was spent on salaries for 450 contract staff in senior management, average salaries were R811,235 for permanent senior managers and R1.314 million for contracted staff in senior management positions (based on averages provided by departments).

Some R41.13 million was spent on performance bonuses for senior managers.

Permanent senior managers in six departments earned an average salary of more than R900,000 a year. These included:

- public enterprise (R935,700),

- public service and administration (R949,000),

- defence (R949,507),

- justice and constitutional development (R1.101 million),

- correctional services (R1.109 million), and

- sport and recreation (R1.6 million).

In the two departments that spent the most on performance bonuses for senior management — National Treasury with R14.3 million and environmental affairs with R5.5 million — the Auditor General (AG) did not note the percentages of targets met.

In the case of Treasury, the AG indicated that the 42% of the targets relevant to programmes were not time bound or tied to a specific deadline. For environmental affairs, the AG had “no material findings” on the performance report.

“It is surprising that the department of basic education, which achieved only 47% of their targets, had the third highest spending on performance rewards for senior staff — R3.1 million,” Marais said.

Massive discrepancies between performance and outputs achieved were also noted for various departments.

The higher education and training department reached only 29 percent of their targets, but paid R1.24 million in senior management bonuses.

The water affairs department achieved 8% of their targets, but paid R669,000 in performance bonuses to senior staff.

At the justice and constitutional development department, R1.04 million was paid in performance bonuses to senior managers in a department that reached only 18% of its targets.

“We cannot continue to reward poor performance in the public service.” 

A review of the remuneration policy and performance management system in the public sector was critical, he said.

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Oct 16, 2012

amaBok

You can only call it mediocre if they are actually doing something. This lot of social grant scum are just saboteurs on the 10 - 2.30 shift.
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Oct 16, 2012

Msiphos00

DA again nxxxxx
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Oct 16, 2012

MicaParis

That is what you get when you let the rats run a cheese factory!
A dog will never guard over a roasted meat, never!
90% of them does not even have formal qualifications but are political deployees who knows only how to toyi toyi and exile antics which are far from being linked to public administration and management.
The rest are family members, friends and cohorts who are dodging hunger under the shade of free government grants/salaries.
Of course others are a bunch of girl friends who were hired to dodge maintenance orders and others are boyfriends/toy boys to entertain elite female members who want to rub stomachs with them every night since 90% of female government elite employees are divorced!
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Oct 16, 2012

KeRataBasadi

This is just an advanced form of welfare/grants.
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Oct 16, 2012

Mbeki_2

Tjo, this gravy train is now the ANC 5-course and dessert train, washed down with plenty JW Blue label. Sorry for kids who have no school books, food, teachers, decent hospital care, and very little future. Hope born-frees use their votes to make these robbers pay. The great organisation crumbling after 100 y ears,

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Oct 16, 2012

MoNati

@Msiphos00

DA again nxxxxx

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Maybe you are one of them the DA is talking about?
nxa stupid fu#k
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Oct 16, 2012

MoNati

We bl@cks think like soccer supporters as long as our team with the right color wins. I am ashamed to be bl@ck.
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Oct 16, 2012

MoNati

Our team can steal, kill and use our own people they just must be bl@ck.
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Oct 16, 2012

MoNati

O, and all hell will brake loose when a wh@te man or party says its wrong.
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Oct 16, 2012

BRA-MAFUTHA

I blame Zuma
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