JEANNE VAN DER MERWE It cost the South African taxpayer R442,900 in 2011 to produce a single matriculant. That’s the outcome of a City Press study conducted with the help of prominent labour economist, Adcorp’s Loane Sharp. Sharp crunched 12 years of education budget and enrolment data to help us answer a simple question: what… Read More »

JEANNE VAN DER MERWE Municipal managers’ salaries are not only hurting ratepayers; they’re also hurting the labour market. Experts this week slated the hefty cost of municipal management teams revealed by a Media24 analysis of treasury data of budgeted municipal salaries. The analysis has shown that for SA’s 30 most expensive councils, managers in smaller… Read More »

THANDUXOLO JIKA and JEANNE VAN DER MERWE Some of the country’s best-paid mayors preside over small municipalities in rural South Africa – and are even earning more than the mayor of Johannesburg’s huge metro. This is the startling picture which emerges from official data comprising nearly 7,000 records Media24 Investigations analysed. (See our What’s Your… Read More »