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TimesLIVE Premium reports that an urgent court case by the Association of Regional Magistrates of SA (Armsa) over magistrates' salary increases was removed from the roll on Tuesday after last-minute court papers from the Presidency made the litigation unnecessary.
Armsa had approached the court asking it to order the President to act on the recommendations of a “major review” by the Independent Commission for the Remuneration of Public Office Bearers on magistrates’ salaries, allowances and benefits. In its court papers, Armsa said the president’s failure to act for nearly nine months “undermines judicial independence and the rule of law”. But at the hearing, Armsa told the court it was removing the case from the roll because it had emerged in court papers filed by the President a day earlier that he had referred the commission’s recommendations back to it.
In his affidavit, Ramaphosa said the major review was different to the annual determination of office bearers' remuneration. “It encompasses the entire system of remuneration of all public office bearers and is the result of years of research and consultation. Its recommendations will have far-reaching and long-term impacts on the fiscus, and the structure of remuneration in the state,” Ramaphosa pointed out. He indicated that it was impossible to deal with the recommendations piecemeal, adding that “I could not, even if there were no concerns affecting magistrates (and there are), make a determination for them to the exclusion of all other office-bearers.”
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