New online verification platform to exorcise ghost workers in public sector
Estimated to cost South African taxpayers R3.9bn a year.
The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) says it has developed a new real-time biometric verification system to help root out ghost workers, which are reckoned to cost the South African taxpayer R3.9 billion a year.
These are workers who are paid a salary but do no work – typically due to collusion between public sector officials who add fictitious employees to payroll systems, duplicate entries, or administrative neglect.
