Gauteng Health Freezes Salaries Of 66 Staff To Tackle Ghost Workers

The Gauteng Department of Health has frozen the salaries of 66 employees as part of efforts to eliminate ghost workers from their payroll. This move is part of the province-wide Ziveze Reveal Yourself Campaign launched in October last year.

The campaign aims to curb wasteful expenditure by ensuring that every individual receiving a salary from the department is a legitimate employee actively contributing to healthcare services .

We have made the call to all our employees to actually present themselves at various human resource offices, to go and verify themselves. All they need to do is to bring their ID copies, and theyll be taken through the system and then they get verified. Unfortunately, those that avoid verification or not participate in this particular process run the risk of being removed from the payroll, including, in some instances where criminal cases might have to be opened," says Gauteng Health spokesperson, Motalatale Modiba.