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Finance minister Tito Mboweni. Picture: ESA ALEXANDER
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Unions and Tito Mboweni at odds over ‘talks’

Finance minister Tito Mboweni insisted on Thursday that the government has held “a multipronged conversation” with trade unions to lay the groundwork for a three-year wage freeze on which the entire budget rests. Mboweni was briefing MPs…

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Public service and administration minister Senzo Mchunu said the R85m figure excludes a number of departments and two entire provinces which failed to provide the numbers.Image: Jackie Clausen
DA MP LEON SCHREIBER

Taxpayers pay R85m to suspended state workers who are sitting at home

Taxpayers have paid more than R85m in salaries to suspended employees who are sitting at home waiting for their cases to be concluded. A whopping R74m of the amount was spent by provincial governments, while national departments spent…

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