About R50m a year was spent keeping about 400 suspended civil servants at home because of delays in finalising their cases. These figures might probably be the tip of the iceberg, and the application before the court typifies this endemic problem, which has the invariable consequences of rewarding suspended public servants who are content to stay at home at the expense of the hapless South African tax payer. Significantly however, with these prolonged suspensions of employees with full pay and benefits, the basic values and principles governing public administration as espoused in section 195 of the Constitution become secondary.
Tlhotlhalemaje AJ in South African Democratic Teachers Union v Motheo FET College (J352/15) [2015] ZALCJHB 183 (17 June 2015) at para [1] with footnotes omitted.