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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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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 ministerial handbook, which was approved by Cabinet on 8 June.

The ANC initially tried to stop opposition parties from seeing the textbook, when someone put it on the internet this week.

According to the new handbook, the state will pay “equipment” such as “mobile rental”, fax machines, DStv and internet and WiFi services for ministers, their deputies, premiers and MECs.

Spending on DStv Premium alone can therefore cost a total of R129 000 per month.

The ministerial handbook has been changed for the first time in 12 years after it was i
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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 ministers will receive an annual salary of R1,977,795.

Ramaphosa earns R2,874,851 a year while deputy president David Mabuza’s salary is R2,825,470.

A look at the perks

The ministerial handbook is a guide to the “benefits and privileges” that members of cabinet are entitled to, but government views it as a “classified, confidential document,” says AfricaCheck.

The ministerial handbook regulates everything from spending on Christmas cards to the picking of flowers at state residences (one needs permission from the chief horticulturalist to do so), but here is a look at t
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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 300 votes from the Eastern Transvaal.

Pravin Gordhan was re-admitted to the cabinet amid the fact that his name has not yet been honored with the court case against the PP.

The appointment of De Lill, the leader of Good Party as minister, is a strange phenomenon, especially since there is no record that the ANC has had good discussions.

Zuma’s 36 ministers have been reduced to 28 ministers, and 50% of the cabinet consists of women.

The Deputy President is David Mabuza.
The Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development is Thoko Didiza.
The
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