Gordhan says home affairs’ salary cap to remain until 2019
The cap is a major hurdle in the department’s efforts to establish a border management agency, but Gordhan will not be moved
A salary cap imposed on the Department of Home Affairs until 2019 is set to remain in place, despite requests by the department and Parliament’s home affairs committee for it to be reconsidered. This is a major hurdle in the department’s efforts to establish a border management agency, which has been in the works for seven years. The earnings cap is also a source of further tensions between the department and Treasury. The proposed agency is meant to serve at ports of entry with personnel drawn from the police, the South African National Defence Force, the Department of Health and the South African Revenue Service (SARS), among others. In his 2017 budget estimates of national expenditure, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan highlighted that, despite being allocated R34m for its immigration affairs programme and R51m for an advanced passenger processing system, the department would have to live with the employee compensation ceiling. Last year, Parliament’s portfolio committee on home af...
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