Spending on ministerial housing
23 Aug 2011
The latest attempt to focus attention on the ministerial housing is a barefaced move to embarrass Government and the Executive.
The Government had indicated in 2009 that it had planned to buy and upgrade housing for Ministers, Members of Parliament and top government officials.
At the time an amount of R150-million had been earmarked as planned expenditure on ministerial housing in line with Government's budgetary and supply chain management process.
Attempts to now compare the trend in austerity measures around the world today are mischievous; at the time spending allocated to ministerial housing had been developed in line with available resources and requirements.