Finance Minister Tito Mboweni said government would not budge from its plans to wrest the public service wages in multiple ways, including holding off on wage increases.
Minister of Finance Tito Mboweni addresses the media during the 2020 National Budget Press Conference at the Parliament House on February 26, 2020 in Cape Town, South Africa. The national budget speech is the governments spending plan for the coming financial year. The minister of finance is responsible for allocating money to the governments different programmes and objectives.
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Finance Minister Tito Mboweni said general public service spending is expected to reach an estimate of R68.4 billion in 2021/22.
Government opted not to implement the public wage deal for 2019/20, anticipating it would add more than R37 billion to the 2020/21 wage bill.
The Department of Public Service and Administration will reprioritise R19 million for personnel expenditure reviews from the 2021/22 to 2022/23.
A Limpopo municipality not only lost about R4.8 million for wrongfully firing an official because of the findings of a doctored audit report, but was overcharged by R2.2 million for the investigation when the official was subjected to a disciplinary hearing.
The final report from the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) into the Tubatse Local Municipality (now Fetakgomo Tubatse), which City Press has seen, also found that the disciplinary committee chairperson and a language facilitator charged the municipality for days when the hearing against supply chain manager, Osilias Mosoma, did not sit.
In addition, it claimed reimbursement for hotel accommodation, even though the municipality paid the hotel bill directly.