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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