Minister in the presidency, Mondli Gungubele, has defended a recent change to the ministerial handbook which allows ministers and their deputies to get limitless free electricity and water, while the DA is challenging the legality of the handbook in its entirety.
South African ministers get free electricity and water because they have poor job security and have to pay expensive medical aid contributions.
Taxpayers are now footing ministers’ whole utility bills, where they previously only paid up to R5,000 per minister per month.In Gungubele’s defence of the change, he told SAfm’s Stephen Grootes that a minister could lose their job at any moment. “Forcing South Africans to pay the private electricity and water bills for the very same ministers who have robbed citizens of access to these critical services is a slap in the face that the people will not accept,” said DA MP Leon Schreiber.
“The handbook, therefore, appears to exist ‘ultra vires’ — outside of the Constitution and the law,” Schreiber said.
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