Members of the Public Servants Association marched to the National Treasury offices in Pretoria on November 10 2022 demanding a 6.5% wage increase. Picture: Thulani MbeleI defy any country to do better.
Never mind the fact that to apply for a child passport, both parents need to take a day’s leave from work to do so as there is no certainty as to how long the process will take, even if, like most people, you join the queue at 4am to try to guarantee being seen on that particular day. But you must also remove the child from school as they need to be present to verify their existence. And if “the system is down”, you have to do it all again another day.
When I returned to collect the document a week later just before the 3.30pm deadline for the home affairs element of the branch to shut, there was not an official to be found. I am reliably informed by bank staff that the home affairs officials at that branch routinely squeal into work not a moment earlier than necessary and are at their desks from about 9am to 1pm, whereupon there is an hour for lunch, and they are headed home by 3pm.
The average civil servant in South Africa earns more than R450,000 a year, a little over R38,000 a month, and according to Nedbank economist Isaac Matshego, they have been beneficiaries of above-inflation increases for years even as the size of the real economy has shrunk. Between 2009 and 2019, public sector wage increases grew on average two percentage points above inflation every year. It’s unsustainable.
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