PSA calls for urgent intervention into ghost workers payments of R14-million at Public Works [SOUND]

# The Public Servants Association is calling on the minister of Public Works and Infrastructure, Dean Macpherson, to activate immediate salary freezes for all unverified persons flagged by the system, pending physical and biometric validation. During the department budget speech, the Minster revealed that 14-million-rand in taxpayers’ money are being systematically channelled to ghost workers in the department. The association’s spokesperson, Claude Naicker, says it is utterly unacceptable that public funds are being weaponised to enrich syndicates and corrupt people: