Prasa: We may have been paying salaries to about 3000 ghost emploees

Jisis. How about reading the article first?

Most of the people exist, but they are not collecting their salaries because they were asked to produce their ID's and qualifications. It's more a case of ghost qualifications.
 
The_Ogre said:
Jisis. How about reading the article first?

Most of the people exist, but they are not collecting their salaries because they were asked to produce their ID's and qualifications. It's more a case of ghost qualifications.
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“He said the agency had a workforce of about 17,000 and that an auditing of skills project found there were many people getting salaries who could not be accounted for.”

How are they getting salaries that they can’t collect?
 
Pegasus said:
“He said the agency had a workforce of about 17,000 and that an auditing of skills project found there were many people getting salaries who could not be accounted for.”

How are they getting salaries that they can’t collect?
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They aren't.

That's because they did not produce the qualifications so they can continue receiving their salaries. The fact that their ID numbers are still showing up as alive at Home Affairs means they've been lying about their qualifications, else why can't they produce it?
 
I wonder if they also got bonuses.

And did someone just use a name generator or did someone just put in staff #14 000, #14 001 etc. Because nobody checked maybe they were so brazen.
 
The_Ogre said:
They aren't.

That's because they did not produce the qualifications so they can continue receiving their salaries. The fact that their ID numbers are still showing up as alive at Home Affairs means they've been lying about their qualifications, else why can't they produce it?
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Who are "they", do you think "they" all exist? As if it's impossible to invent a person, along with qualifications or pay a bribe to retain an employment contract. Do you really believe that things ended up this way, with the checks and measures being removed because of a complete lack of experience or just general apathy? No no, there is money involved here...
 
Prasa just got caught, this was no accident.

This is no "ghost" accident.

Someone knows who got paid out and Prasa might just try to save its own as.s by making claims that they don't know how it happened.

This same situation exist in every government department and any government department just like any company that handles salaries will have an accountant/auditor to account for payments.

The short and skinny, either the accountant/auditor scammed Prasa or Prasa turned a blind eye and made it happen. There is no such thing as an accident and no one is accountable.
 
The country's unemployment rate, therefore, is by implication deduced using faulty data and thus is actually worse.
 
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John Tempus said:
Prasa just got caught, this was no accident.

This is no "ghost" accident.

Someone knows who got paid out and Prasa might just try to save its own as.s by making claims that they don't know how it happened.

This same situation exist in every government department and any government department just like any company that handles salaries will have an accountant/auditor to account for payments.

The short and skinny, either the accountant/auditor scammed Prasa or Prasa turned a blind eye and made it happen. There is no such thing as an accident and no one is accountable.
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So they caught themselves?
 
With an SOE and 17k on the payroll, running this kind of "No Show Jobs" scam is incredibly easy.

If the Mafia can do it, so can local syndicates. Especially within a SOE where they know there are no checks and balances and also zero accountability.

I'm 100% sure there is a LOT of these happening in Government that have not been found/uncovered/exposed yet.
 
Hemi300c said:
I bet this is common in all SOE's and government departments.

Should be easy enough to catch the beneficiaries but hey this is cadres we talking about
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There is quite often a kickback system - a certain amount/percentage of pay gets paid to some or other "senior".
This "arrangement" might not be well known, but it is most certainly commonly done, and is in certain cultures regarded as "normal practice".

Why would a "senior" (that is getting paid this "arrangement" money) shoot themselves in the foot?
 
Dups! said:
... and they complain about the unmanageable public servants bill.

The question is how many ghost workers are there in all government departments.
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Total chaos.
 
Blackhand said:
3000 people earning a R10 000 salary for 3 years is R1bil stolen (at a minimum). How the actual F does a billion rand just go "missing" off the books. Does anyone in these SOEs even remotely care?
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It doesn't go missing of the books it is allocated as a salary experience.

There's a few department heads that need to go to jail for fraud because of this.
 
The_Ogre said:
Jisis. How about reading the article first?

Most of the people exist, but they are not collecting their salaries because they were asked to produce their ID's and qualifications. It's more a case of ghost qualifications.
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No we are responding to the clickbait headline.
 
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