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SA Health Department to resolve workers wages dilemma

Date: May 12, 2025

South Africa’s (SA) Gauteng Province, Health Department says it is working to resolve the issue of unpaid salaries of healthcare workers in its hospitals.

This following reports that several doctors, including those at key public hospitals like Chris Hani Baragwanath, Charlotte Maxeke, and Dr George Mukhari have not received their salaries for months. 

The department has cited among others, the failure of some employees at Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital to adhere to a verification process to prove that they are not ghost workers. 

It says this has led to the employees’ salaries being frozen.

Gauteng Health Department Spokesperson Motalatale Modiba, "We said we are going to be verifying all our 85 642 employees who are currently on the department's payroll as part of a campaign to ensure that we can account for each and every person who is not on that payroll. 

And we said that failure to participate in that process would have other consequences and those consequences, some of them would be freezing of those salaries. At the end of April there were about 188 employees whose salaries were frozen because they had not come forth to verify themselves." 

--SABC--

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