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The government has misled South Africans about how much of the national budget is spent on the salaries of civil servants, Prophet Analytics claimed on Wednesday.  

“The government is wrong when it states that only 35% of the annual budget is spent on wages. The true figure is 88 percent...,” analyst Peter Aling said in a statement.  

The government had also misled analysts by appearing to agree to 5.4% wage increases for civil servants, he said.  

This was according to Prophet Analytics’ fourth quarter 2012 Labour Market Navigator Report.  

The report indicated an increase in the salaries earned by black civil servants and the proportion of black government employees.  

In the past 10 years, the percentage of black civil servants had increased from 42 to 74, and nearly 40% of South Africa’s highest-earning blacks were now government employees.

Aling attributed sharp rises in black civil servants’ salaries to “managerial bloat”, claiming the government used promotion and job re-grading to increase their incomes.  

“This results in the average remuneration for public sector workers now [being] 32% higher than that of private sector workers.” 

If historical rates of progression were maintained, 5.1 million black people would be earning more than the average white person in private business by 2020, he said.  

Racial income disparities were steadily, if slowly, closing.  

“This is apparent from current census results showing that black incomes grew 10.4% per annum between the censuses, compared to the 6.5% growth in white incomes,” Aling said.  

Measures to speed up this process included improving the education system and reviewing labour laws, he said.  

The National Treasury could not immediately be reached for comment.

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Nov 28, 2012

Pwepwe

unbelievable
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Nov 28, 2012

!#Sinudeity#!

So most money in the country doesnt go to service delivery. It goes to salaries.

And yet, incompetence and corruption still rule the day.
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Nov 28, 2012

BabyNono87

Which is why i think the government should also introduce retrenchment to those government employees who sit and twiddle their thumbs doing nothing, day in and day out......
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Nov 28, 2012

Kon-Tiki

The point being? Go home, you have had too much to drink. Beep.
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Nov 28, 2012

MommaC

"remuneration for public sector workers now [being] 32% higher than that of private sector workers"

then we wonder why the books don't balance. If these lazy sods did 32% more work then it would be okay, but they do 82% less work!
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Nov 28, 2012

oldlady12

MommaC, and then those lazy sods will be striking again, coming 2013, for higher salaries!!!!
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Nov 28, 2012

Shredder

“This results in the average remuneration for public sector workers now [being] 32% higher than that of private sector workers.”

If historical rates of progression were maintained, 5.1 million black people would be earning more than the average white person in private business by 2020, he said.
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This sounds like "Swaart Gevaar".
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Nov 28, 2012

MommaC

oldlady12

The never ending 'song of my people' - strike season.
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Nov 28, 2012

Tinkiez

What causes the bloat in salaries is this chopping and changing of Ministers, MEC's and DG's/HOD's. The MEC or whoever, comes with their own "trusted" staff, once is fired they leave those people there and the next MEC comes with his own staff of about 17 people. Now the ones who were with the previous MEC, some of them who were highfllying Head of Ministries are given mineal jobs, such as clarks. But they still earn their previous positions salaries.
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Nov 28, 2012

Shredder

This guy is paranoid.
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