[Debate] (Fwd) Sutcliffe salary: R2.1 mn

[Patrick Bond]

    City managers rolling in cash

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      The managers of six of South Africa's metropolitan cities are
      coining it big time, earning salaries well in excess of their
      political bosses, MPs, MECs and, in some cases, even more than
      premiers, ministers and their deputies.


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With an annual package of R2.3-million, City of Johannesburg's municipal 
manager, Mavela Dlamini, earns even more than deputy president Kgalema 
Motlanthe, Speaker of the National Assembly Max Sisulu and newly 
appointed Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng, who each pocket R2.2-million.

The 2011 Local Government Budgets and Expenditure Review released by 
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan in Cape Town last week reveals that city 
managers are among the top earners in the public service.

Dlamini - whose five-year contract ends next week - is the highest-paid 
municipal manager.

Dlamini receives this handsome salary despite the city's billing systems 
having descended into chaos, causing the municipality to fail to collect 
hundreds of millions of rands in rates and taxes due to it.

President Jacob Zuma last month accepted a 5% pay increase for public 
office bearers, as recommended by the Independent Commission for the 
Remuneration of Public Office Bearers.

The only public official earning more than Dlamini is Zuma himself, who 
rakes in just under R2.5-million annually.

Next after Dlamini is eThekwini city manager Mike Sutcliffe, who takes 
home an annual package of R2.1-million. Cabinet ministers and their 
deputies earn annual packages of R1.9-million and R1.5-million respectively.

Ekurhuleni city manager Khaya Ngema takes home R1.8-million. His City of 
Cape Town counterpart, Achmat Ebrahim, rakes in R1.7-million, which is 
equivalent to salaries earned by premiers.

Former acting Tshwane city manager Oupa Nkoane earned R1.5-million, an 
annual salary equivalent to those of deputy ministers.

Of the six metros, acting manager of the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality 
in Port Elizabeth, Elias Ntoba, is the lowest paid, earning R1.4-million 
a year. His salary is, however, still far more than the R843 000 MPs are 
paid.

MECs earn just over a R1-million a year, while metro mayors earn between 
R800000 and R1-million.

Local government expert and director of the University of Cape Town's 
law clinic, Nico Steytler, said the hefty salaries were justified.

"They are the CEOs of the municipality, their job is to oversee proper 
accounting systems and service delivery.

"They have to make sure the system works," Steytler said.

"On the one hand, they have the politicians breathing down their necks 
and the legal framework to deal with. On the other hand communities 
expect delivery. It's a very tough job."

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