{"id":7099,"date":"2013-07-12T12:46:40","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T12:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7099"},"modified":"2013-07-12T12:46:40","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T12:46:40","slug":"govt-gives-terence-nombembe-a-r6-million-back-dated-pay-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7099","title":{"rendered":"Govt. gives Terence Nombembe a R6 million back-dated pay rise!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7100\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7100\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Terence_Nombembe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7100\" alt=\"Terence Nombembe\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Terence_Nombembe-300x183.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Terence_Nombembe-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Terence_Nombembe.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7100\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terence Nombembe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Auditor General Terence Nombembe has received a salary increase of close to a million rand a year, backdated for more than six years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Details of the increase are contained in a letter, dated May 23 this year, sent by President Jacob Zuma to Parliament. The letter was published this week in a parliamentary document.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;[The president has determined that] the annual salary package of the Auditor General Mr TM Nombembe be increased from R1,708,600 per annum to R2,650,000 per annum with effect from December 1, 2006.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This meant Nombembe&#8217;s salary package would increase by R941,400 a year, backdated for six-and-a-half years, a windfall of well over R6 million.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The date of December 1, 2006 is the day on which Nombembe &#8212; who replaced Shauket Fakie, who retired &#8212; was appointed to the post.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The letter also announces a huge increase in Nombembe&#8217;s termination benefits.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;[The] Auditor General&#8217;s termination benefit [is to] be increased from 10 percent of the average term compensation for each year of service, to 50 percent of the average term compensation for each year of service&#8230; .&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the letter the payment of back pay would be done in accordance with the guidelines applicable to the AG&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zuma&#8217;s decision to increase Nombembe&#8217;s salary package was based on a recommendation of the parliamentary committee on the Auditor General. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auditor General Terence Nombembe has received a salary increase of close to a million rand a year, backdated for more than six years. Details of the increase are contained in a letter, dated May 23 this year, sent by President Jacob Zuma to Parliament. The letter was published this week in a parliamentary document. &#8220;[The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7099\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Govt. gives Terence Nombembe a R6 million back-dated pay rise!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[3910,166,3911,1511],"class_list":["post-7099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-auditor-general","tag-jacob-zuma","tag-pay-increase","tag-terence-nombembe"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Terence_Nombembe.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7101,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7099\/revisions\/7101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}