Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.KwaZulu-Natal faces a more than R4 billion budget deficit, with provincial departments struggling to find funds to meet the additional expense of the national government’s wage agreement for public sector workers.
Nationally, the public sector wage bill will cost R421 billion or 34.9% of the total R1.206 trillion social wage bill allocated in the 2024-24 budget, a treasury spokesperson said on Friday. This is mostly for the salaries for educators and health professionals. “Health lost R2.89 billion because of the unfunded wage agreement and human settlements and public works, R26.4 million that they didn’t get, and the department of social development lost R97.2 million,” he said.