Ghost workers 'a form of orchestrated corruption'

CHAIRPERSON of the Portfolio Committee on Public Service and Administration, Jan de Villiers, said the persistent and corrosive problem of ghost workers in the public sector is not merely a payroll anomaly, but a “deliberate and orchestrated form of systemic corruption”.

- THEOLIN TEMBO

De Villiers was part of the three chairpersons of the parliamentary Governance Cluster Oversight committees who held a briefing as part of the 7th Parliament's regular Committee Cluster Media Engagement programme yesterday.

He said the true scope of ghost workers is not known, and an investigation into the problem is part of a joint audit under way between the Department of Public Service and Administration and the National Treasury.