Answer to Question #206335 in Microeconomics for Mfiyo Aphelele

Question

- A brief explanation of the public wage bill in SA (Its advisable to illustrate trends by means of graphs and tables showing: -

- Why is it a problem in SA

Answer 1

Public wage in South Africa refers to the amount of money the government of South Africa spends on its employees.The government spends a third of its budget on salaries of employees.This includes civil servants, the police service, the teachers service and even to the doctors.The public wage bill became a problem when the government decided to empower the black disadvantaged people back from the apartheid period by empowering them with public jobs hence there was an inflation on public wage bill by 40%.( The graphs and tables have adamantly refused to appear from my end despite numerous efforts to make them appear)