Inside SA’s public service conundrum
Despite the government’s claims that basic education, health care and criminal justice are priority sectors, significant job losses loom due to ‘unprecedented’ budget cuts
20 October 2022 - 05:00
Fiscal consolidation implies “large and damaging” headcount reductions among nurses, teachers and the police, which will significantly erode the quality of core public services. But there is no plan to manage the impact.
This is the central message of a new paper by Wits University adjunct professor Michael Sachs and fellow researchers Arabo Ewinyu and Olwethu Shedi, who take a hard look at the implications of “unprecedented” budget cuts that lie in store...
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