Bill To Curb Cabinet Lavish Lifestyles Introduced By Actionsa

The ActionSA says it is confident that its recently introduced Bill, which aims to reduce government waste by eliminating the lavish lifestyles of Cabinet members will gain support from different political parties.

The Cut Cabinet Perks Bill comes in response to the Government of National Unitys proposal for a VAT increase, which would further burden ordinary South Africans.

The party argues that money spent on travel and accommodation for Ministers could instead be invested in improving the lives of South Africans.

ActionSA Member of Parliament, Alan Beesley says, It appears that our Cabinet ministers are spending more time overseas than theyre actually doing in our country. The Minister of Human Settlement spent one night in Australia in a room that cost R198000 for one-night accommodation and that could have built a house for one family for the rest of their lives. So you compare one months accommodation to a house, it couldve housed a family for the rest of their lives. The Minister of Higher Education, her ministry spent R11 million on travel in five minutes and we got students going to university hungry today without any accommodation. So theres just no tie between the reality of whats happening in our country and that lavish lifestyle of Cabinet ministers.

PODCAST ActionSA introduces the Cut Cabinet Perks Bill: