Vice-Chancellors' exorbitant salaries crackdown
Posted by Ingrid Thomson | 5 Nov, 2008Story in the Mail & Guardian
Education Minister Naledi Pandor is to crack
down on exorbitant salaries earned by vice-chancellors after they
failed to regulate themselves.
Pandor announced this to the Mail & Guardian
after her department released a shocking breakdown of salaries earned
by vice-chancellors at South Africa's 23 public universities, which
totalled more than R40-million last year.
The data shows that some under-performing
institutions, which rely heavily on state subsidies, pay more than
those that rely on external funding and are top research producers.
Top of the pile is the Mangosuthu University of Technology's (MUT)
suspended vice-chancellor, Aaron Ndlovu, who received a R3,68-million
package last year - making him South Africa's highest-paid civil
servant. Pandor earns R1,6-million.
Runner-up is Ihron Rensburg of the University of Johannesburg (UJ) with
R2,77-million, followed by Unisa's Barney Pityana (R2,63-million), the
University of KwaZulu-Natal's Malegapuru Makgoba (R2,3-million) and
Errol Tyobeka of Tshwane University of Technology (R1,93-million).
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