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The state’s salary bill is consuming money that the country needs to keep going, with regular increases while unions are demanding larger portions. Yet the private sector and white people of the country are regularly scapegoated for the country’s problems.

Everyone knows this and the government recognizes it and makes promises to act. Yet nothing good happens. The government’s salary bill currently accounts for 34% of the national budget. This means that R340 out of every R1 000 spent by the government goes towards salaries.

Salaries more than tripled from R154 billion to R518 billion in the period 2006/07 to 2018/19. Government officials earning more than R1 million a year increased from 9,600 to 29,000 during the same period.

Yet, the private sector is regularly lauded as the biggest scapegoat for the ANC’s failures. The private sector is the largest job creator in South Africa, despite huge barriers created largely by
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The Amcu trade union demands a R17,000 a month compensation for platinum mine workers, and negotiations will be difficult to deal with regarding the rage that the claims has caused amongst mining houses.

The Stilwater mine currently pays miners R12,500 a month and and this has already affected the mine’s profitability, negatively .

The claimants say they expect R17,000 because of inflation and they will not settle for less.

The remuneration of those who receive the least wage is R11,500 per month, and the claim is that it is only a drop in the ocean of what the Chief Executive Officer earns per hour.

The union also demands fringe benefits such as housing subsidy, medical benefits, transport and in total it should amount to R30,000 per worker per month.

Experts say that if this demands are met, this will be the end of the mining era in South Africa, for the reason that mining houses is on the verge of closure, and the only pro
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