LETTER: Politicians sit pretty while public goes hungry
Amid huge job losses, no politicians or public sector workers have lost their positions or taken a pay cut
The devastating findings of the Covid-19 survey make for shocking, though not unexpected, reading (“The jobs reckoning is here: 3-million jobs lost (https://www.businesslive.co.za/fm/features/cover-story/2020-07-15-the-jobs-reckoning-is-here/)”, July 15). The dire situation is made far worse by the knowledge that at the same time no politicians or public sector workers — municipal or government — have lost their job or even taken a pay cut.
Councillors, mayors, MPLs, MECs and premiers, MPs, ministers and their deputies and all 11 speakers have received full pay throughout the lockdown. And, with all the public sector workers, they’re also in line for a budgeted annual increase of 4.5%-6.9% — all to come out of our rates and taxes...
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