Ministers should heed the call to scrap their exemption from utilities bills — they can hardly seem any more divorced from reality.
South Africans It really is, in this tale of two countries, the best of times and the worst of times .
Trade union federation Cosatu described the revelation that ministers’ utility costs had been covered while everyone else struggles as “shameful and scandalous”. “It is extremely insensitive for this administration to cushion off the members of the executive, while imposing extreme sacrifices on the workers and unemployed,” said spokesperson Sizwe Pamla.
In no other countries do elected politicians earn close to the CEOs of the largest corporations, because corporations create jobs and earn money, while the government consumes it in the form of taxes.
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