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President Jacob Zuma has announced a five percent increase in salaries of public office bearers for the 2013/2014 financial year.
The presidency says Zuma himself will not take any salary increase.
Spokesperson, Mac Maharaj says in a statement the five percent increase is effective from 1 April this year - the start of the 2013/14 financial year.
He says Zuma took the decision after taking into account the affordability of the different levels of remuneration, the present social and economic context, and inflation.
Maharaj says the salaries are determined by the president in terms of the Remuneration of Public Office Bearers Act.
These include the president, deputy president, ministers, deputy ministers, Members of Parliament, premiers, and members of mayoral committees, provincial legislatures, as well as mayors, councillors, judges, magistrates, and traditional leaders.
