Civil servants are meant to serve. If they don’t, civilians need to stand up for their rights
About a million desperate public sector workers have had to survive on their savings or social aid networks
As modern life becomes more complex, the size of civil services grows — and so does the wage bill
Well before Zimbabwe’s economy took a hit in the late 1990s, spurring world-record inflation, usury was a part of the daily lives of working-class households in South Africa’s northern neighbour
The scramble to find cash for an SAA bailout, Covid-19 grants and civil servants’ demands force postponement of mini-budget
Public sector unions say the rampant Covid-19 pandemic will have a devastating effect on how the government is run and services are delivered
Some of those on the government payroll did exist but were paid for jobs they did not undertake while others were dead or fictious
The move is in line with a reconfiguration process to drastically cut the state’s wage bill
The state’s bid to claw back 0.6% under a previous agreement has thrown a spanner in the works.
The delay in pay dates for civil servants is likely to continue as the cash-strapped state has to wait for money collected from Zimra to pay salaries.
Zimbabwe’s liquidity crunch is taking its toll, but labour groups say bosses are ‘cheating’ their workers.
Public servants are angry that the government appears to be reneging on its recent promise to award them a salary increase next month.
Civil servants in Zimbabwe want the government to commit to a timetable to finalise wage negotiations.
Minister Lindiwe Sisulu is determined to deliver a public service that is professional and free of graft.
Speak it like it is – government administration is a shambles.
Verashni Pillay reflects on quota systems, interrogating the dearth of white people in SA’s civil service – and whether we need them there at all.
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/ 24 January 2012
Union leaders say they have suspended a civil servants strike in Zimbabwe which shuttered the country’s schools in demand of doubled wages.
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/ 23 January 2012
A strike by Zimbabwe’s civil servants has all but kicked off, with schoolchildren being turned away but business continuing at government offices.
State employees in Zimbabwe have begun an indefinite strike, demanding a wage hike of 150% and action against militants targeting rural teachers.
While singing the praises of the nurses of yesteryear, President Jacob Zuma took aim at ‘pompous’ government employees who failed to serve the public.
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/ 18 December 2008
Iraq has arrested about 50 interior ministry officials for plotting a coup against the Shi’ite-led government, it was reported on Thursday.
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/ 29 October 2008
Metro police officers instead of MPs should be getting the increase.