{"id":53799,"date":"2022-07-11T12:28:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T10:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/worcesterstandard\/worcesteriet-op-gepf-raad-20220706-2\/"},"modified":"2022-07-11T12:28:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T10:28:07","slug":"worcesteriet-op-gepf-raad-20220706-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/worcesterstandard\/worcesteriet-op-gepf-raad-20220706-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Worcesteriet op GEPF-raad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geskiedenis is pas gemaak toe \u2019n inwoner van Worcester n\u00e1 \u2019n nasionale verkiesing vir die Staatsdiens-pensioenfonds (GEPF) se trusteeraad gekies is. <\/p>\n<p>David Jantjies, nasionale voorsitter van die Civil Servants Pension Redress Movement (CSPRM), het uit twaalf kandidate landswyd die tweede meeste stemme op hom verenig. Daarmee is hy as sekundus in die raad vir die land se staatsdienspensioenarisse aangewys. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDis nogal \u2019n verantwoordelike posisie om in te neem, aangesien jy al die voormalige staatsdienswerkers verteenwoordig en in verskeie staande komitees van hierdie raad dien,\u201d s\u00ea Jantjies, wat \u2019n gebore en geto\u00eb Worcesteriet is. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDie GEPF is die grootste pensioenfonds in Afrika en die agste sterkste van sy soort in die w\u00eareld met bates van R2,09 triljoen. Hierdie bates m\u00f3\u00e9t reg bestuur, beskerm en optimaal bel\u00ea word ten einde die grootste moontlike voordeel aan die fonds se lede, wat hard daarvoor gewerk het, te verseker,\u201d verduidelik hierdie voormalige onderwyser. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDie CSPRM is tans uiters besorgd oor R8,704 miljard wat sedert 2019 as pensioenregstelling aan slegs sowat 50 000 mense uitbetaal is, terwyl meer as 300 000 mense nie eens van hierdie regstelling bewus gemaak is sodat hulle voor 2012 kon aansoek doen nie,\u201d vervolg hy. \u201cOns sal desnoods hierdie aangeleentheid op ho\u00eb vlak aandurf sodat reg en geregtigheid vir ons as voorheen benadeeldes teen wie erg gedurende die vorige politieke bestel gediskrimineer is, kan geskied.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jantjies s\u00ea verder: \u201cGroot kommer heers onder pensioentrekkers oor beleggings wat met hul pensioengeld aangegaan word, asook oor voortdurende geluide uit regeringsgeledere dat hierdie pensioenfonds tot die redding van kwynende en korrupsie deurtrekte staatsondersteunde instansies soos Eskom, die Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens en Transnet moet kom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jantjies het in 2008 die eerste aanstelling in die land as \u2019n anderskleurige skoolhoof by \u2019n voormalige model-C skool in Kraaifontein geword nadat hy wye ervaring opgedoen het as senior bestuurder by Spoornet aan die Weskus asook by die Suid-Afrikaanse Reserwebank in Pretoria, waar sy besonderse leierseienskappe en administratiewe bekwaamheid geslyp is. <\/p>\n<p>Hy bly egter opgewonde praat oor sy beginjare as onderwyser by Esselenpark Prim\u00eare Skool in 1973 \u2013 letterlik \u2019n klipgooi van sy huis af. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNou rus \u2019n reusetaak op my skouers en ek weet hierdie posisie het nie sommer net in my skoot geval nie,\u201d vervolg Jantjies. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDie eer kom die Here toe, en dit was voorts die harde werk, saamstaan en stemme van die snelgroeiende CSPRM reg hier uit Worcester tot in die uithoeke van ons land en Namibi\u00eb, wat die knoop deurgehak het.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Die snelgroeiende CSPRM het die afgelope drie jaar landwyd asook in Namibi\u00eb \u2019n beduidende voetspoor verkry onder afgetrede staatsdienswerkers aangesien hulle uiteraard nie meer werkers is nie en ook nie \u2019n werkersunie het om na hul belange om te sien nie. <\/p>\n<p>Jantjies se energie het op 70-jarige ouderdom geen einde nie. 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