Please pass the gravy... train

This thread needs a better title. You people need to read this: MEC blows R96 000 on dinner

Just about R96 000 - that's what Gauteng MEC for finance Paul Mashatile spent on one evening's dinner at an upmarket French restaurant in Sandton.

An unemployed mother can receive a monthly government grant of R190 for a child, which means the dinner bill could have paid the monthly grants of more than 500 children.

Mashatile used the cash to entertain his peers from the Gauteng Shared Services Centre (GSSC) and Economic Development Unit at Auberge Michel restaurant after his annual budget speech on June 23, 2006.

Mashatile is the political head of both departments.

It appears that between February and mid-year he spent a total of about R250 000.
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We are inured to the depredations of our elected representatives.
Human language: we all know our gov is up to sh**e, but they don't do anything even when a ruckus is raised.
 
moklet said:
That caviar must have been served on diamond studded platinum plate.
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More likely they had a few bottles of very good wine/whiskey to round off their celebration (irony alert: it was a celebration of a budget speech).

The guy in question is really a fairly low level operator; and he gets to spend our taxes in this way. Lovely --- I am yet further impressed by the quality of our leadership.
 
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