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[TOP STORY] R11bn for early retirements: Can it solve SA’s public sector woes?

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‘The risk is you lose the people you don't want to lose, and you don't actually end up saving any money because you've got to replace them,’ says Dr Andrew Donaldson, senior research associate at the Southern African Labour and Development Research Unit at the University of Cape Town.

19 Nov 2024 8AM English South Africa Business News · Politics

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