WHATEVER else the ANC’s “developmental state” has done for the country, it cannot be contested that the state has developed itself munificently. The number of government employees has increased steadily over the past two decades. Between 2005 and 2012, total employment in central and provincial government rose 27%. These employees’ average annual per capita remuneration doubled in that period, from R10 1980 to R21 1788. Between 2008 and 2012, total state employment rose by 13%, but the remuneration bill went up 76%…..more