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BusinessLive reports that cabinet ministers and their deputies, who each earn up to R2.4m a year and are tasked with driving the government’s user-pay principle, are failing to keep up with relatively cheap rentals for their lavish ministerial homes.
The ministers owe the state a combined R1.3m in outstanding rental payments for state-subsidised houses, according to public works minister Patricia de Lille. Rent for ministerial houses is heavily subsidised and costs about R1,200 a month. Cabinet ministers receive an annual salary of about R2.4m, while deputy ministers earn close to R2m a year. De Lille indicated the following in reply to a parliamentary question: “The department of public works and infrastructure has informed me there are 43 ministers, who are past and returning members of [government], who are currently in arrears with their payments.” She indicated that letters of demand for payment had been sent to the ministers, but did not reveal the names of the ministers and deputy ministers in arrears. But, she said that if arrangements were not made and payments were not received, the accounts would be handed over to the state attorney for debt collection.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Bekezela Phakathi at BusinessLive
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