{"id":388771,"date":"2020-04-09T21:01:42","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T19:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=388771"},"modified":"2020-04-10T08:36:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T06:36:57","slug":"south-africas-government-ministers-will-take-a-33-pay-cut-for-the-next-three-months-heres-how-much-they-earn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/388771\/south-africas-government-ministers-will-take-a-33-pay-cut-for-the-next-three-months-heres-how-much-they-earn\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa&#8217;s government ministers will take a 33% pay cut for the next three months &#8211; here&#8217;s how much they earn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that the deputy president, members of cabinet, and he, himself will all take a pay cut as part of a contribution to South Africa&#8217;s fight against the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaphosa said that these members of the executive will all take a 33% pay cut over the next three months. The president said that this money will be donated to the established Solidarity Fund.<\/p>\n<p>In a government gazette published at the end of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/376011\/this-is-how-much-mabuza-malema-and-other-officials-will-get-paid-this-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February<\/a><\/strong>, Ramaphosa confirmed that a number of senior officials including the deputy president and ministers would not be receiving an increase this year.<\/p>\n<p>The official salaries are outlined below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bt_table\">\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"50%\">Position<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: center;\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"50%\">Total remuneration<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Deputy President<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">R2 825 470<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Minister<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">R2 401 633<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Deputy Minister<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">R1 977 795<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Split over a year, a minister&#8217;s salary works out to just over R200,000 a month. A 33% reduction works out to R134,000 a month (a cut of R66,000) &#8211; meaning for the three months, each minister will be contributing R198,000 to the fund.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The announcement comes after\u00a0 Ramaphosa extended South Africa&#8217;s national lockdown by another two weeks, beyond the original 21 days. Most of the initial lockdown measures will remain in place until the end of April, said the president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are only at the beginning of a monumental struggle,\u201d said Ramaphosa. \u201cIf we end the lockdown too soon, we risk a resurgence of the disease.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that risk-adjusted measures will be assessed to ensure certain businesses can return to operation. \u201cWe did not take this decision lightly,\u201d said Ramaphosa.<\/p>\n<p>The priority for the government is to ensure there is not a massive loss of life, while at the same time not allowing the economy to collapse.<\/p>\n<p>This will see healthcare efforts ramped up, along with financial packages for local businesses.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/388743\/south-africas-coronavirus-lockdown-extended-by-2-weeks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">South Africa\u2019s coronavirus lockdown extended by 2 weeks<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that the deputy president, members of cabinet, and he, himself will all take a pay cut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":114836,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-388771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388771"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388841,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388771\/revisions\/388841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}