Amathole municipality can’t afford to pay salaries, but from 2013 to 2018 hired 900 employees who weren’t needed

AmatholeNews24 reports that from 2013 to 2018 the Amathole District Municipality hired more than 900 people who were not needed, resulting in a bloated organogram and unaffordable salary bill.  Of those, 500 were hired in a single month in 2013 in what the municipality termed mass employment.  

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