Mbeki's Retirement Hideaway

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Have you read Saturday's weekend paper concerning Mbeki's new home, which the gov is paying for with our tax monies,while the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.A cool R22 000 000 for his joint,with the state of the art shut everything security system.Does he not earn enough money to buy his own place.This make me :mad: and make my blood boil.
 
It will get explained away.
I mean he is the Big Chief and the Big Chief needs to have a Big Hut.

What concerns me is the quick rebuttals. Where there is smoke there is always fire.
Perhaps SARS should take a little look see, but that will never happen to the Big Chief as the Big Chief is friends with the other smaller Chief Manuel.

22 Million is nothing in the big scheme of things, if indeed the money comes from our Taxes? The media has stated that Mbeki's Family paid for it? Then where did Mbeki's family get 22Million from etc etc. BEE?

It is a vicious circle.
President deserves to have a Big Hut, but I sincerely hope all the finances are above board and were acquired legitimately.
If not, then my opinion of our Big Chief has dropped and we are well on the way like every other Government across Africa where all the Big Chief's and all the Chiefs underlings have their arms deep in the cookie jar.

And while the Big Chief faces criticism in the media, the Ex Deputy Chief is going to seize the moment to take Big Chiefs job so that he can control the Cookie Jar.
 
No point even stressing anymore, things aren't going to change any time soon.
 
well he will be getting R900 000 odd per year adjusted for inflation for the rest of his natural life. He can afford it. The house is more splashy than PW Botha's for instance, but not extraordinary IMO.

Let the man have it. I just cannot believe it is a 3 bedroom place. It looks like a 5 or 6er to me.
 
The contractor says "only" R8 mil?

Not really expensive if you look at the surroundings (Google Earth Lat: 26° 9'41.70"S Long: 28° 3'6.11"E :) ). Houghton Estate is about 500m to the North and I'll be mildly surprised if you can buy anything there for less than R20 mil.

Of course our leaders will always like nice, big houses. :cool:
 
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You gotta be kidding me,nice joke BTech, Haa haa haa,He is more out of the country than in the country/cannot solve a single problem or issue.
 
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WHAT a good thing it is that the Democratic Alliance’s resident building inspector, Douglas Gibson, is not an estate agent. One leery eye cast over the three-bedroom Houghton retirement home that President Thabo Mbeki and his missus are building and suddenly it’s a whopping R22-million mansion. Built, nogal, with public money. (According to the construction company, it’s more like R8-million — put up by Zanele Mbeki.)

Move over Pam Golding, or what?

Fussed the Mampara as he attempted to lead a posse of pressmen onto the building site this week: “We think the President should stop this feeding frenzy and explain the whole thing.”

Whatever. But little Dougie’s opportunism does call to mind certain phrases, including “half-cocked”, “invasion of privacy” and, oddly enough, “Napoleon”.
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http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/articles/article.aspx?ID=ST6A205760
 
BTech said:
Yes, we should respect our Honourable President Mbeki's privacy.:)
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Privacy isnt part of the job. He is after all the public face of a nation and responsible to its citizens.
 
BTech is President Mbeki your father, you really think he is an honourable person hey?,but I say I don't see a single thing that he acomplished.He'll help any other country but his own.
 
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More lies from the DA.
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Read the thread!!

(According to the construction company, it’s more like R8-million — put up by Zanele Mbeki.)

The way I read it - house 8 million - 'ancillary services' 14 million, ie, security, accoutrement's - which the government is paying for (our tax monies.)

Anyway - bob's house is bigger (the small one)... :p
 
22mil thats fancy, but 8...agenee,in that suburb its peanuts:D
 
kilo39 said:
The way I read it - house 8 million - 'ancillary services' 14 million, ie, security, accoutrement's - which the government is paying for (our tax monies.)
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It is STANDARD practice in most countries that past heads of state and their spouses and families are afforded protection by the state until they have died.

George Bush Senior, Bill Clinton and even his daughter (remember his wife is now a US Senator) is still protected by the US Secret Service.

Afaik a similiar arrangement exists for FW De Klerk.
 
in truth - I make no judgements on this - simply re-iterating the facts (as posted - as you seem to have missed them, ie, da crap - and no expense incurred by gub.)

... as to the finer moral issues: he has no wants and all needs will be catered; oh if only they applied the same to the rest of the population.
 
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