<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD height=8></TD></TR><TR><TD class=msgtxt>Came across this:
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/31/world/under-fire-mandela-calls-for-austerity.html
Stung by images of high-living officials and pressed by inherited debts, President Nelson Mandela's Government has announced austerity measures including cutting the pay of top elected officials, whittling the Civil Service and selling some state-owned businesses...
Mr. Mbeki said the cuts were intended to change the Government into a "leaner and more effective catalyst" for delivering social programs and economic growth. He said Mr. Mandela and his two deputy presidents would take a 20 percent pay cut -- the President's salary would fall from $163,000 to $130,000 -- and lower-ranking public officials would lose up to 10 percent of their pay...
"We have this problem: we have the high salaries and we are living in luxury," he said. "That destroys your capacity to speak in a forthright manner and tell people to tighten their belts."
Of course, our PAP people said that high pay is to prevent corruptions. But is Nelson Mandela more corrupted after his pay cut?
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http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/31/world/under-fire-mandela-calls-for-austerity.html
Stung by images of high-living officials and pressed by inherited debts, President Nelson Mandela's Government has announced austerity measures including cutting the pay of top elected officials, whittling the Civil Service and selling some state-owned businesses...
Mr. Mbeki said the cuts were intended to change the Government into a "leaner and more effective catalyst" for delivering social programs and economic growth. He said Mr. Mandela and his two deputy presidents would take a 20 percent pay cut -- the President's salary would fall from $163,000 to $130,000 -- and lower-ranking public officials would lose up to 10 percent of their pay...
"We have this problem: we have the high salaries and we are living in luxury," he said. "That destroys your capacity to speak in a forthright manner and tell people to tighten their belts."
Of course, our PAP people said that high pay is to prevent corruptions. But is Nelson Mandela more corrupted after his pay cut?
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