A UDC Government would increase public servant salaries by 17 percent with immediate effect, said Party Vice President Ndaba Gaolathe when responding to the Finance minister’s 2017/18 budget speech that was delivered on Monday. Gaolathe offered his party’s own version of the budget, saying they would set on a path of creating a highly productive and incentivised workforce. “Salary increases in the ensuing years would decline, and plans put in place to set a transparent manner for adjusting salaries based on inflation, performance and exceptional skill. “In order to improve sustainability, government will need to improve revenues, decrease costs, or both. Retaining the appropriate balance of these levers will be important as the country is in a critical stage where it needs careful stewardship in order to catapult our economic development. We can take inspiration from other countries that have led in the path of improving government. “We will Restructure the government budgeting process. We have already indicated that the Parliamentary Budget office will play a key role in enabling an efficient budget process.“We will Introduce transparency and aggressive monitoring and evaluation: in order to drive delivery, government should increase transparency with a rigorous and public monitoring mechanism. We propose…
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