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The ANC hiked public service pay more than 7% when the budgeted increase was 1.5%. Now it has run out of money to pay them.
However, in eThekwini the municipal manager, Musa Mbele, got a 66% pay rise this year while there is a rates boycott protesting against lack of service.
The ANC government should have taken a leaf out of the book of its best friend, China’s Communist Party. Since the property bubble burst, municipal funds are scarce. No problem: all municipal workers had their pay cut by 20%.
Here government uses our rates and taxes to in effect bribe government employees to keep voting ANC. The Chinese would call that “welfarism” and sentence any troublemakers to re-education.
James Cunningham
Camps Bay
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