WARNING: This is Version 1 of my old archive, so Photos will NOT work and many links will NOT work. But you can find articles by searching on the Titles. There is a lot of information in this archive. Use the SEARCH BAR at the top right. Prior to December 2012; I was a pro-Christian type of Conservative. I was unaware of the mass of Jewish lies in history, especially the lies regarding WW2 and Hitler. So in here you will find pro-Jewish and pro-Israel material. I was definitely WRONG about the Boeremag and Janusz Walus. They were for real.
Original Post Date: 2008-05-08 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
[Sickening! The highest pay increase I’ve had in the last 15 years has been about 7%. At the company I work for, I was told that this year, increases will be from 5%-8%. And 8% will only be awared to the very top performers – and the number in that category will be much smaller and more select. But the lazy civil servants… the flipping PARASITES who live off you and me and our tax money… will be getting double-digit pay increases – the worthless bastards. Jan]
The government would consider whether to give public servants a double-digit pay increase this year in line with inflation, public services and administration minister Geraldine Fraser Moleketi said on Tuesday.
She told told a media briefing there was already a standing agreement in terms of giving public servants an inflation-related salary increase.
The consumer price index excluding mortgages (CPIX) now stands just more than 10 percent.
“There is a standing agreement that we have reached, which is the multi-term wage agreement, which says we need to look at an increase that is CPIX plus 1 percent for this year. This is a matter we will consider and we will resolve accordingly,” she said.
Her briefing came as food prices continued to soar and the fuel price reached its highest level at midnight on Tuesday.
The government also announced on Tuesday that it would introduce new legislation to curb price fixing, despite the cabinet’s opting to place its faith in the competition tribunal last month.
Deputy trade and industry minister Rob Davies told MPs: “We will be coming to parliament with legislation that will contain proposals which are intended to deal with the continuation of collusive behaviour and tighten up some of the loopholes which are in the existing legislation.”
His statement came barely a fortnight after the cabinet ruled that such measures were not required.
“At this stage, there is no talk of legislation until such time that the government gets information that would suggest that we need to change our laws,” government spokesperson Themba Maseko said last month.
But Davies told the national assembly that despite the threat of heavy fines from the competition tribunal, the price-fixing practice was continuing and more needed to be done to stop the abuse.
Last year, Tiger Brands felt the wrath of the competition tribunal when the retail giant was fined R99 million for anti-competitive practices in a bread price-fixing scandal.
A number of pharmaceutical companies have also been fined by the watchdog body.
Davies’s comments were sparked by MPs of the ANC expressing concern about the steady increase in food prices. They argued that 60 percent of the country’s population were already spending more than a quarter of their income on food.
Thousands of Cosatu members have already taken to the streets in protest against food manufacturers and retailers increasing the prices of basic foodstuffs.
The ANC and opposition parties expressed concern alike about rising fuel prices.
Inkatha Freedom Party MP Narend Singh urged the government to reactivate the “equalisation fund”, which had been previously used to “smooth out price fluctuations and lessen the immediate shock to the economy and the public at large”.
The Bill would seek to unify the administration and personnel practices of national, provincial and local government. It was too early to say how much the whole process would cost, she said.
“We’ve received the technical report looking at the costing of the single public service on April 30. We are studying that. It needs to be taken to the cabinet.”