LETTER: What ‘empty government posts’?
Civil service is bloated already
20 August 2019 - 05:00
I notice the media doesn’t find it suspicious that an ANC spokesman said after the recent elections that there are many vacant posts in government departments that need to be filled. Yet there have been numerous reports about the bloated civil service with its unsustainably huge salary bill.
If these “empty posts” are padded with cadres on the usual inflated packages, the ANC will be able to say unemployment is falling. The fact that the Treasury is struggling to fund the monthly bill appears to be irrelevant...
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