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The total cost of the precautionary suspensions for the provincial departments was R74,068,656.
“The cost of suspension is calculated as wages paid while the employee is on preventive suspension, ”said Mchunu.
However, the actual costs are much higher, since Mchunu’s information did not include statistics from Gauteng or Mpumalanga, which had not been sent to his department, he said.
It also did not include statistics from the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development, the Department of Rural Development and Agrarian Reform, the Department of Women, Youth and People with Disabilities, and Statistics SA, despite the letters they were sent requesting statistics.
Mchunu was responding to a question from DA deputy Leon Schreiber, who wanted to know details about the number of employees who are suspended with full salary and the amount the government has spent on salaries for public service employees suspended since April 1, 2018.
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