Answer to Question #199813 in Microeconomics for SIGQIBO

Question

A brief explanation of the public wage bill in South Africa?

Answer 1

South Africa spends about a third of its budget on salaries for state officials, and government spending on public sector pay is set to rise to 697 billion rand by 2020. This rise began when apartheid ended, when the government attempted to empower millions of underprivileged black people by placing them in government employment.