{"id":4026,"date":"2014-07-13T13:56:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T06:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4026"},"modified":"2014-07-13T13:56:48","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T06:56:48","slug":"115-ghost-employees-on-botswana-govt-payroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/115-ghost-employees-on-botswana-govt-payroll\/","title":{"rendered":"115 ghost employees on Botswana Govt. payroll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Botswana &#8211; The Directorate of Public Service Management (DPSM) has found close to 115 ghost employees on the government payroll.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) this week, DPSM director Carter Morupisi said they picked up people who are not supposed to be paid salaries while cleansing the ministries\u2019 records.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCurrently we can not con\ufb01rm the period and how much expense government suffered as they were found in different ministries,\u201d he said. Te error, he said, might have been caused by the loss of track of officers due to frequent departmental transfers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Botswana News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.botswanaguardian.co.bw\/news\/916-115-ghost-employees-on-govt-payroll.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Botswana &#8211; The Directorate of Public Service Management (DPSM) has found close to 115 ghost employees on the government payroll. Speaking before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) this week, DPSM director Carter Morupisi said they picked up people who are not supposed to be paid salaries while cleansing the ministries\u2019 records. \u201cCurrently we can not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,2654,2653,257,254,4693],"class_list":["post-4026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-carter-morupisi","tag-ghost-employees-on-the-government-payrol","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}