Govt mistakenly pays R77m to ex-employees
2013-02-19 10:14
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Durban - The KwaZulu-Natal government has mistakenly paid about R77m to
employees who resigned during the past financial year, the Mercury reported on
Tuesday.
Government has recouped R18.6m from the employees who resigned between April
2011 and April 2012.
The departments most guilty of mistakenly paying its former employees were
education and health, which paid R61m and R13m.
Premier Zweli Mkhize revealed this in a parliamentary reply to the
Democratic Alliance's George Mari.
Mkhize's spokesperson Ndabezinhle Sibiya said on Monday recouping the money
was a constant "work in progress" and it was steadily being
recovered.
Those employees who had been paid would not be prosecuted because they had
been at the receiving end of an administrative error.
Even those who knew they had been wrongly paid and did not report it, would
not face the law, he said.
Sibiya said with the high number of people who left their position because
of retirement, resignation, end of contract or even death, the system did not
always update speedily.
- SAPA
