The Citizen reports that the Democratic Alliance (DA) has called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to fire the minister for public service and administration, Senzo Mchunu, if he fails to cut the public wage bill by at least R37.8 billion in the 2020/21 financial year.  

DA MP Dr Leon Schreiber said in a statement on Wednesday:  “Mchunu was issued a clear instruction by Finance Minister Tito Mboweni during his February budget: cut the public wage bill by R37.8 billion in 2020/21, by R54.9 billion in 2021/22, and by R67.5 billion in 2022/23, totalling R160.2 billion.”  Indicating that the DA had consistently supported Mboweni’s call for fiscal responsibility, Schreiber went on to state:  “That is why we have repeatedly submitted credible and costed proposals to the government on how to implement the cuts in a way that grants inflation-linked increases to all frontline service delivery heroes while freezing the bloated salaries of managers and administrators, and reducing the 29,000 millionaire managers in the public service by a third”  Noting that Mchunu had on Tuesday released a statement indicating that “government remains committed to the implementation of the 2018 wage agreement”, Schreiber said that if Mchunu was implying that he intended to ignore Mboweni’s instruction to cut the wage bill, he would be committing fiscal treason against the people of SA.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard at The Citizen
• Read too, State is committed to upping salaries, says Senzo Mchunu, at BusinessLive

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