The probe into excessive sick leave was prompted by the fact that an Eastern Cape legislature senior financial manager has been on sick leave since April 2017 while still earning more than R1.5 million per year.
The South African government has spent nearly R51 million on paying thousands of civil servants on suspension or sick leave, prompting the department of public service and administration to launch an investigation with the Public Service Commission to establish a campaign to learn how much the government spends on sick leave.
The findings shocked plenty of people, and many people have expressed their opinions on social media about what they saw, with Norma indicating that we are a joke to the politicians. The amount of money spent by the government in Eastern Africa on people while they are sitting at home in their comfort did not sit well with many people, and they have indicated that the government should find ways to ensure that things of this nature do not happen frequently and that saviour consequences should be faced by those who lie and say they are sick when they are not.
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“Serious abuse of tax payers’ money: whoever paid over the money and whoever sanctioned it must be fired and made to pay the money, or the asset forfeiture unit must clean them out, but I guess it will be labelled an error in judgement,” Raymond Alexander adds.
“We need to wake up and fight the rot in state departments.” The European Commission is in a bind, and service delivery is a concern. We now know whyโit’s because of incompetence and fraud,” Someone else added.”
๐๐๐๐ we are joke to these politicians
— Norma Kay (@realnorma_kay) August 6, 2023
The investigation into excessive sick leave was sparked by the fact that an Eastern Cape legislature senior financial manager has been on sick leave since April 2017, but has continued earning a salary of more than R1.5 million a year.https://t.co/Am85uhivU0
— City Press (@City_Press) August 6, 2023
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