More than 9 000 councillors in the country are set to receive a salary increase. This has emerged in a notice published in the Government Gazette last month in which Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Zweli Mkhize determined the upper limits of the salaries, allowances and benefits of all categories of councillors.
Mkhize said he made the determination after consultation with MECs responsible for local government in each province.
The notice states that councils should obtain permission from the MEC for local government prior to implementation of the provisions of the notice.
This will be after a council took a resolution, supported by a majority of councillors, for the municipality to pay councillors within different grades of remuneration.
The notice shows full-time councillors serving as mayors in metro municipalities will pocket R1350250 in annual remuneration packages, speakers and deputy mayors will receive R10
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