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11:46, 19-Jul-2017
South Africa’s pay cuts loom as government mulls public servants' earnings
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South African President Jacob Zuma has frozen all salary increases for politicians as the country’s economy faces recession.
With Zuma having earned 220,000 US dollars in 2016, a survey suggested that he was ranked sixth among the world’s highest-paid leaders, higher than many European prime ministers and his counterparts in the BRICS bloc.
Public pressure seems in place based on the latest economic data released in the county.
The spokesperson of the Institute of Race Relations, Mienke Staedler, took the Kenyan government as an example as it imposes pay cuts on MPs, indicating that President Zuma should follow suit himself and suggesting the savings could be spent on the nation’s education, infrastructure, and medical care among other sectors in need of investment.