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Suspended Mpumalanga civil servants living their best lives as government blows R9 million paying officials to sit at home. Full story here➡️grosswastage mustbenice

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The Mpumalanga government has failed to respond to damning allegations that over R9 million of taxpayer’s money has been used to pay the salaries of officials sitting at home on suspension. In August last year, then acting minister of Public Service and Administration Thulas Nxesi revealed that government spent R131.2 million in salaries for suspended officials over the last two years. This excluded data from the Department of Defence and the State Security Agency.

The Mpumalanga government has failed to respond to damning allegations that over R9 million of taxpayer’s money has been used to pay the salaries of officials sitting at home on suspension.revealed that government spent R131.2 million in salaries for suspended officials over the last two years.For this period, various departments paid out civil servants on suspension for an average of 86 days, with salaries paid for three months of no work being done.

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