'We can’t be wanting to increase our salaries while other people are still earning peanuts,' says EFF regional chair Sepetlele Raseruthe.
Despite all the challenges faced by Johannesburg residents, the majority of councillors in the Johannesburg council yesterday approved a motion to increase their salaries.
“We must wait for them to adjust so that we can move together and that is why we rejected the upper limits.”Other councillors have argued they were entitled to the salary increment. Raseruthe, however, argued that this was the wrong way to approach the increase and ways should be found to change it.ALSO READ: The EFF was also accused of almost collapsing the council after members did not enter chambers as they were still having breakfast.
ActionSA caucus leader Nobuhle Mthembu said at the time when residents were suffering from above-inflation rate increases and service delivery failures, councillors should not be rewarded with salary increases. “This has got nothing to do with milking the state. It is really what they deserve and what they earned.”Political analyst Dr Ralph Mathekga said the salary increase came across as if it did not matter how things were in the city, it didn’t matter about performance and it didn’t matter about the state of crisis Joburg was in, but only about the councillors’ pockets.
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