Early retirement | 12,000 workers could exit public service

JOHANNESBURG - Government has recognized that the wage bill for government workers is too high.

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Will the plan to allow thousands of public servants to retire early work?

The education union SAOU says that the loss of highly skilled teachers will have a debilitating effect on schools and the education sector.

In the recently tabled budget, R11 billion was allocated to cover the cost of an early retirement program targeting around 30,000 civil servants.

Andrew Donaldson from a Research Unit at UCT discussed this with eNCA.