Luxury travel, free housing and domestic staff along with salaries in the R2m a year bracket are all in store for the politicians who woke up as freshly minted members of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s cabinet on Thursday. AfricaCheck has crunched the numbers and found that cabinet ministers will receive an annual salary of R2,401,633. Deputy..
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Whopping salaries and perks for new cabinet: here are the numbers – Spouses and children also set to score footed by taxpayers money
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Ramaphosa’s cabinet is smaller – Zuma’s 36 ministers are reduced to 28, 50% of cabinet members are women
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The ANC president, Cyril Ramaphosa, announced his new cabinet which is considerably smaller than the one with which Zuma bankrupted the country. What is surprising is that Ramaphosa has appointed his benefactors, with or without clarity of their innocence. Mabuza is the deputy president because during the ANC meeting, Ramaphosa was elected president by giving..
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Cyril indicates that he is going to put together much smaller cabinet to cut expenses, which may mean that the “Zuma Ministers” will bite the dust
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Unconfirmed reports are currently rising over the possibility that Ramaphosa could dismiss the ministers who previously supported Jacob Zuma. The ANC president earlier indicated that he would set up a much smaller cabinet in order to trim the expenses, and that he plans to reshuffle the cabinet. This may indicate that the “Zuma Ministers” are..
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Cope says Cyril Ramaphosa and ministers must pay for fuel to feel our pain, so we can call for #Nofuelbudget, that will surely save South Africa some money
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Just hours after the latest petrol price hike kicked in on Wednesday, the Congress of the People (Cope) suggested that President Cyril Ramaphosa and his cabinet ministers pay for their own fuel to feel the financial impact being endured by citizens. The party said in a statement that the day the president and his cabinet..
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Who will be the next people to toi-toi in the streets? – ‘No salary increases for Mabuza and ministers’ – says Ramaphosa
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There will be no annual salary increases for the Deputy President as well as Cabinet Ministers at a time when the economy is experiencing hardships, President Cyril Ramaphosa has determined.
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With the light on the State capture inquiry:- Pravin Gordhan has a lot to get off his chest
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Let us unpack things before Gordhan takes the hot seat on Friday. The Minister of Public Enterprises, Pravin Gordhan, will finally take the hot seat in what will probably be the most anticipated testimony in Deputy Chief Justice, Raymond Zondo’s commission of inquiry into state capture.
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Living the luxurious life funded by taxpayers- Ministers’ spouses take their free ride to international destinations
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Cabinet ministers have racked up a R7.6m bill on luxury travel for their wives, husbands, children and other relatives to international destinations such as New York and Paris on taxpayer-funded official trips. This has been revealed in answers to a series of written questions by DA MPs to each of the 35 cabinet ministers in..
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New Cabinet who is in, who is out?
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JOHANNESBURG – President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced his new Cabinet at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Monday night.
Deputy President:
David Mabuza
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Zuma: State capture commission must investigate all state corruption, focus on Guptas
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President Jacob Zuma wants the state capture commission of inquiry to investigate all forms of government corruption, including allegations against him, his Cabinet ministers, the Gupta family and state-owned entities. In the terms of reference seen by News24 on Thursday, Zuma says the commission must investigate whether, by whom and to what extent attempts were..
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