Who in his or her right mind would call for an early retirement for older people who are still in the employ of the public service except for Mboweni himself?

But if you really scrutinise his deliverance on that message, he failed on one big thing, to call on the over-65s who are in parliament to bow out first and act as examples to the new dawn in South Africa, as espoused by president Cyril Ramaphosa.

It is a fact that younger politicians also need their space in the higher echelons of power to run the country, but hell no, all positions are occupied by old crocks. It’s party policy, according to the new dawn, to pave the way for younger politicians and take early retirement, then the public service will start listening to you.

Secondly, if you take a closer look at the unemployment rate in the country which keeps rising each year, there’s no
the way that jobs can be created for more intake when you do not offload others from the system.

It’s not only about the public sector, but the private sector too must play a role in that regard.
I do not see any problem of being offloaded at my age, 60. As long as the employer will incur other overriding
expenses, I’m game for it.

The onus here is that say you’re 60 years like myself and have to go on pension at age 65, then I can willingly go
on early pension as long as the employer will cover my years of earning and increments for my remaining five years
then give me a full package, I can retire in peace.

The question here is: are the targeted 30 000 public servants ready to go on early retirement? People have many debts and have not begun living their lives. Having come a long way from apartheid rule , it’s now that they were beginning to enjoy their lives, but have to make way for the young ones.

As responsible citizens, really, and thinking for generations to come, if all older people will hang onto their jobs for
a lifetime, where will the younger ones find employment?

You talk of job creation as politicians, there’s no job creation without retrenchments or “early retirement” as
Mboweni has coined it. It’s a tough subject and a very tough choice to make.