TMG Digital reports that the Democratic Alliance (DA) has accused former Minister of Transport Dipuo Peters of contradicting herself on the 350% wage increase of former Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) acting CEO Collins Letsoalo.  

The DA’s Manny de Freitas said on Sunday that in a written response to a DA parliamentary question‚ Peters had revealed that Letsoalo was “eligible to receive all the benefits applicable to this position”‚ which included an annual salary of almost R6 million or roughly R500‚000 per month.  He went on to assert:  “This response is a clear contradiction of the secondment letter which the former Minister sent to Letsoalo and the Board of Prasa on 7 July 2016‚ in which she allegedly informed Letsoalo and the Board that Letsoalo’s remuneration package would remain unchanged at R1.3 million per annum‚ plus an additional 12% acting allowance.  The former Minister has therefore either misrepresented herself in her response to the DA‚ or she was untruthful in her secondment confirming that Letsoalo would earn R1.3 million per annum.”  The DA wants Peters to answer for the discrepancies in her communications with Parliament and with the Prasa Board.”

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