Pay freeze for top office bearers comes after six years of healthy rises
President Jacob Zuma’s acceptance of the recommendation for zero salary increases for top public office bearers comes after six years of healthy increases averaging about 5% a year. Zuma determines their salaries based on‚ among other things‚ recommendations by the Independent Commission for the Remuneration of Public Office Bearers. The officer bearers affected include members of the executive, deputy ministers‚ MPs‚ judges‚ magistrates‚ mayors‚ traditional leaders and municipal councillors. From 2010‚ Zuma had been making salary adjustment determinations based largely on the commission’s recommendations. It recommended that he get R2,367,466 from April 2010‚ and his salary rose incrementally‚ reaching R2 891 373 from April 2016.
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