LETTER: Cruel to cut jobs in the public sector
Cutting the civil service wage bill until it reaches the correct level of GDP is the wrong approach
It is unfortunate and cruel that business is assembling a lobby to press for job cuts in the civil service (“Hard decisions needed to tackle public sector pay, says Busa (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/economy/2020-11-09-hard-decisions-needed-to-tackle-public-sector-pay-says-busa/)”, November 10). Cutting the civil service wage bill until it reaches the correct level of GDP is the wrong approach.
Rather, GDP should be expanded until the same effect is achieved. But that would require lobbying hard against the policies that undermine investment and entrepreneurship, such as expropriation without compensation, prescribed assets and race-based empowerment laws...
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