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S.Africa: Lashing out at huge bonuses for Cape Officials

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Original Post Date: 2006-01-11 Time: 00:00:00  Posted By: Jan

[The crazy woman who runs Cape Town has this idea of giving out huge bonuses – supposedly for performance! Jan]

Democratic Alliance (DA) mayoral candidate Helen Zille yesterday hit out at “massive” bonuses paid to city officials last year, despite poor governance and the metropole’s inclusion as a dysfunctional municipality under the national Project Consolidate programme.

The bonus controversy has intensified the political battle between the African National Congress (ANC) and the DA ahead of the March 1 municipal elections.

According to the DA, city manager Wallace Mgoqi received a R186000 bonus on a basic salary of R966296.

Finance director Ike Mxedlana received a R166512 bonus on a basic salary of R864999, city secretariat director Achmat Ebrahim received a R172000 bonus on a salary of R893183, and transport and roads director Mike Marsden was paid a R178832 bonus on a R929000 salary.

“The absence of a rigorous assessment in 2004 also resulted in a ludicrous across-the-board bonus of 50% of the maximum bonus amount for every senior manager in the city, regardless of -oe merit,” she said.

Cape Town mayor Nomaindia Mfeketo accused Zille of a “grotesque misrepresentation of the facts”.

When the DA controlled the city three years ago, city manager Robert Maydon was paid a performance bonus of R196000 on a salary of more than R1,2m without a performance assessment, Mfeketo said. Only Mitchells Plain and Khayelitsha were part of Project Consolidate, she said.

Source: AllAfrica.Com

URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/200601110152.htm…/p>