News24 reports that Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana says the Treasury plans to review the remuneration of executives and board members of all public entities to develop a standardised pay framework based on the mandates, areas of influence, and complexity.
The review will be one of three new planned spending reviews. The second is an audit of ghost workers, and the third is a review of infrastructure conditional grants that will assess why provinces and municipalities underspend, why projects are not delivered in time and within budget, and, where relevant, why the quality of what is delivered is poor. Godongwana announced the new spending reviews in Parliament on Tuesday. The remuneration costs of government agencies have been a concern in the Treasury for at least a decade, with boards appointed by ministers appointing executives at exorbitant salaries. Among the agencies that have particularly been singled out for attention due to excessive remuneration are the Road Management Traffic Agency, where CEO Makhosini Msibi earned R10.1 million in 2023, and the SA Civil Aviation Authority, where CEO Poppy Khoza earned R7.4 million. Since 1994, the number of agencies has proliferated to 148 as certain regulatory and investment functions were split out of departments into standalone agencies, all with their own boards and administrative infrastructure.
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