Ever wondered who was paying for ministers and deputy ministers’ cleaning materials, internet services, DStv and cell phones? You. Dondo Mogajane … apparently obliged to exchange two BMW X5’s. Even former ministers and their deputies’ free flights can cost the taxpayer as much as R17 million a year, according to the updated version of the..
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You, the taxpayer are paying for ministers and deputy ministers cleaning materials, internet services, DStv and cell phones
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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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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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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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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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New deputy president, finance minister announced in major Cabinet reshuffle
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ANC deputy president David Mabuza will be the next deputy president of South Africa once he is sworn in as an MP. In a televised address to the nation on Monday evening, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced major changes to Cabinet, signalling a reversal of some of former president Jacob Zuma’s most controversial Cabinet appointments.
Ramaphosa also announced that Nhlanhla Nene would be appointed as new finance minister, once he had been sworn in as an MP. Zuma fired Nene in December 2015 and replaced him with Van Rooyen,
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