The previous National Assembly speaker, Baleka Mbete, who was widely regarded as a somewhat inept person for the post she held, was worth R2,825,470 a year, amounting to a monthly fee of over R235,000.
Then there is the deputy speaker who carries a R1,977,795 a year home that amounts to about R165,000 a month.
The meeting’s chairperson, Sylvia Lucas, receives R1,882,488 a year, and then senior parliamentarians receive R1,600,467 a year (R133,000 md) and younger members of parliament R121,251 per month.
This means that more than R50 million a month is paid to the 400 parliamentarians.
If the TV cameras provide the truth then there are a lot of parliamentarians who receive a reasonable sum of money while they sleep well in the soft chair, or just stay at home and do nothing on a working day.
-Read the Original article in Afrikaans on Die Vryburger
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