Ramaphosa backtracks on giving ministers free utilities at official residences

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Give them their free electricity. It's just a drop in the ocean. Rather cut child grants.
 
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Oh those poor poor ministers. How will they get by? I say we take up a collection to help them survive.
 
Shouldn't they pay back all monies over R5k ?
Should they experience loadshedding as all of us ?
 
Is Cyril playing some 4D chess,I wonder if he leaked that info to the press so that he could implement a cap after the public backlash...
 
Keanu Leeves said:
Is Cyril playing some 4D chess,I wonder if he leaked that info to the press so that he could implement a cap after the public backlash...
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More like testing what he can get away with.

Now if only we had a media establishment with some guts, to ask the difficult questions, like what about the increase in the vehicle cap and why do ministers not get load shed and use public facilities so that they are in time with what the public experiences.

Instead they'll just accept this backtrack as a little victory...
 
Magwenya explained that ministers “inherit” two official residences, which they must then maintain in addition to their private homes.

“You have a scenario where you have costs for three homes,” he said.
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So AWS offers me a job, they assist with relocation.

The smart thing is, I sell or rent out my place in Gauteng. Seems the ministers are hell bend on habing three properties.

Cant someone explain you can rent out your home for the couple of years you are using official homes.

Also, give me R2.4 mil and I will shownyou how easy it is to upkeep all of them.
 
McGuywer said:
So AWS offers me a job, they assist with relocation.

The smart thing is, I sell or rent out my place in Gauteng. Seems the ministers are hell bend on habing three properties.

Cant someone explain you can rent out your home for the couple of years you are using official homes.

Also, give me R2.4 mil and I will shownyou how easy it is to upkeep all of them.
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You need a home for work, a home for weekends and then the holiday home, usually on the farm... Its the way you know.
 
Sapphiron said:
How about they get nothing, and pay for everything with their salary!
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Everyone else must, what makes them special. They even get paid much more than the average joe + they get bribes and lovely corrupted tender deals. The less they get the better for the rest of South Africa!
 
Meh, Squirrel's spine is made of jelly and he hasn't managed to put his house in order. This isn't surprising given then infighting within the "ruling" party.

Something has to give eventually, and we're now at the cusp of failure, hopefully the party will fail before the country.

Depressed.
 
Mike Hoxbig said:
More like testing what he can get away with.

Now if only we had a media establishment with some guts, to ask the difficult questions, like what about the increase in the vehicle cap and why do ministers not get load shed and use public facilities so that they are in time with what the public experiences.

Instead they'll just accept this backtrack as a little victory...
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You can't expect kings and other noblemen to live like mere peasants. How dare you?
 
Keanu Leeves said:
Is Cyril playing some 4D chess,I wonder if he leaked that info to the press so that he could implement a cap after the public backlash...
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It's actually classic ANC chess.

Put down a preposterous proposal.
Let it create public outrage, fuelled by the MSM.
Put down a slightly less preposterous proposal.
Have it hailed as the best compromise, echoed by a sparkling Op-Ed by Adriaan Basson.

The ANC have been doing this for 30 years and the public keeps gobbling it up. Joke's on us.
 
And there all you Doubting Thomases had doubts that he would come out on the side of the taxpayer/consumer.
 
So they had to remove the cap because some ministers have three homes? Should they get even more money if they get a fourth house?
 
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