LETTER: Halting the decline
The government must cut the public sector wage bill and stop middlemen profiting from public procurement
10 November 2019 - 20:46
At the risk of stating the obvious, I do not think getting SA Inc out of its downward financial spiral is too complicated. We have to do two things.
One, arrest the public sector wage bill. It is well documented that public servants are paid above market value by as much as 40%, and yet still get inflation-plus wage increases...
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