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Government canât borrow R70bn to increase public servantsâ salaries, says Senzo Mchunu
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Johannesburg - Public Service and Administration Minister Senzo Mchunu has warned that the government would have to borrow over R70 billion to comply with the agreement to increase public servants salaries it failed to honour last year.
Mchunu filed his written submissions ahead of next month s Constitutional Court battle between unions representing state employees and the government over the failure to increase their salaries in 2020.
The agreement reached at the Public Service Co-ordinating Bargaining Council (PSCBC) in 2018 would have seen salaries increase by between 4.4% and 5.4% agreed with effect from April 1, 2020.
A chrome mine in Limpopo, potentially one of the richest in South Africa, has sat idle while a series of arcane court battles ensue between local and Chinese business interests.
A development agency tasked with bringing employment to the area has lost its stake in the mine, and about 1,200 employees have lost their jobs. While many parties must shoulder parts of the blame, indifference by the national Department of Mineral Resources and energy appears to have contributed.
The Dilokong Chrome Mine is in the mineral-rich Burgersfort district, north of the border between Limpopo and Mpumalanga and west of the Kruger National Park.