A new report reveals that Tshwane metro municipal manager Jason Ngobeni is the best paid civil servant in the country,\u00a0taking home R3 million annually\u00a0–\u00a0more than president Jacob Zuma.<\/p>\n
President Zuma has an annual wage of R2.8 million, while ministers in his cabinet earn approximately R2.3 million, and provincial premiers earn R2.1 million, according to the Times Media Group.<\/p>\n
“Ngobeni was appointed to the post in 2011\u201a and even then\u201a was out-earning the president. Officials at the time said that a favourable salary package needed to be offered in a bid to secure him and retain him in the position,” the paper said.<\/p>\n
The 2014\/15 salaries of almost all of the country’s municipal managers were contained in a response by the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) to a parliamentary question by the Democratic Alliance’s Nomsa Marchesi.<\/p>\n
It found that municipal manager at\u00a0Gauteng local municipality Emfuleni, Yunus Chamda, was paid R2.4 million despite reservations about the municipality’s ability to continue as a going concern in its most recent annual report.<\/p>\n
Other metro municipal managers salaries range between R1.9-million for Buffalo City and R2.8 million for Ekhuruleni.<\/p>\n
The eThekwini and Mangaung municipal managers’ packages are on par at around R2.4 million each while the City of Cape Town municipal manager earns just over R2.2 million.<\/p>\n
The Johannesburg municipal manager takes home R2.6 million annually, TMG reported, noting that the R2 million paid job in Nelson Mandela Bay is currently vacant.<\/p>\n
It said that salaries for municipal managers in district municipalities vary between R1 million to R1.5 million.<\/p>\n
Auditor-general Kimi Makwetu said recently that irregular expenditure among South Africa\u2019s municipalities has more than doubled over the last five years, to R14.75 billion.<\/p>\n
Unauthorised expenditure also increased threefold from 2010-11 to R15.32 billion.<\/p>\n
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