{"id":7624,"date":"2021-04-02T18:51:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T18:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/?p=7624"},"modified":"2021-04-02T17:12:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T17:12:17","slug":"no-pay-increases-for-cyril-ramaphosas-r165m-executive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/no-pay-increases-for-cyril-ramaphosas-r165m-executive","title":{"rendered":"No pay increases for Cyril Ramaphosa\u2019s R165m executive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\">South-Africa<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Members of President Cyril Ramaphosa\u2019s executive, premiers, MECs, MPs, MPLs, judges, magistrates and traditional leaders are paid almost R12 billion a year from the public purse.<\/p>\n<p>The Independent Commission for the Remuneration of Public Office-Bearers, which is based in the Presidency, has indicated that politicians, judges and traditional leaders should not receive salary increases mainly due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThe commission has considered the fiscal condition of the country demonstrated in the previous financial years (2018\/2019 and 2019\/2020), the state&#8217;s wage bill and the impact of public office-bearers&#8217; salary increment on the fiscus and general economic status of the country which has been negatively affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, affordability of the fiscus, relevant legislation and all other factors,\u201d the commission said.<\/p>\n<p>It stated it wanted all public office-bearers not to receive pay hikes.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaphosa\u2019s 75-member executive costs taxpayers over R165 million while MPs and MPLs get nearly R1.1bn. Judges are paid R466m and judges and magistrates are paid around R2.2bn.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s recognised traditional leaders get over R1.1bn. Nearly 100 000 municipal councillors are paid R7bn.<\/p>\n<p>Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has indicated to the commission that between 2006 and 2012, the government appointed about 190 000 employees, which led to a significant increase of government wages.<\/p>\n<p>For its 0% recommendation for politicians, judges and traditional leaders, the commission cited various economic factors, including fiscal affordability, historic inflation, future inflation forecasts, wage settlement data, its prior recommendations, Ramaphosa&#8217;s determinations for the 2019\/20 financial year and the devastating impact of the Covid-19 on the economy.<\/p>\n<p><b>Political Bureau<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. 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The Independent Commission for the Remuneration of Public Office-Bearers, which is based in the Presidency, has indicated that politicians, judges and traditional leaders should not receive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":7623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,8],"tags":[274,315,275],"class_list":["post-7624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-homepage-english","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-south-africa","tag-south-africa-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>No pay increases for Cyril Ramaphosa\u2019s R165m executive - South Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Members of President Cyril Ramaphosa\u2019s executive, premiers, MECs, MPs, MPLs, judges, magistrates and traditional leaders ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/no-pay-increases-for-cyril-ramaphosas-r165m-executive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"No pay increases for Cyril Ramaphosa\u2019s R165m executive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Members of President Cyril Ramaphosa\u2019s executive, premiers, MECs, MPs, MPLs, judges, magistrates and traditional leaders ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/no-pay-increases-for-cyril-ramaphosas-r165m-executive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-04-02T18:51:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2021\/04\/img-60675049cc870.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"404\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/no-pay-increases-for-cyril-ramaphosas-r165m-executive#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/no-pay-increases-for-cyril-ramaphosas-r165m-executive\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"No pay increases for Cyril Ramaphosa\u2019s R165m executive\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-04-02T18:51:01+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/no-pay-increases-for-cyril-ramaphosas-r165m-executive\"},\"wordCount\":273,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/no-pay-increases-for-cyril-ramaphosas-r165m-executive#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2021\/04\/img-60675049cc870.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-South-Africa\",\"South-Africa\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"economy\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/no-pay-increases-for-cyril-ramaphosas-r165m-executive#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/no-pay-increases-for-cyril-ramaphosas-r165m-executive\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/no-pay-increases-for-cyril-ramaphosas-r165m-executive\",\"name\":\"No pay increases for Cyril Ramaphosa\u2019s R165m executive - 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