Given the voracious appetites of ANC cadres, the annual cost to taxpayers of this handout to the rich is likely to run into tens of millions of Rands.

In terms of Ramaphosa’s new handout to his fellow cadres, taxpayers will now be forced to pay for every drop of water and every watt of electricity used at these 126 official residences. In the latest version of the Ministerial Handbook, published on 13 April 2022, Ramaphosa has scrapped the provision that previously capped the amount of money that taxpayers would pay for water and electricity at official ministerial residences at R5 000 per month per house.Įach of Ramaphosa’s 28 Ministers and 35 Deputy Ministers are entitled to two taxpayer-funded official residences: one in Pretoria and one in Cape Town. Īmidst rolling electricity blackouts across the country and widespread water-shedding in Gauteng, the DA can today reveal that President Cyril Ramaphosa has recently introduced a new provision to the Ministerial Handbook that enables his Ministers and Deputy Ministers to use unlimited amounts of taxpayer money to settle water and electricity bills at their official residences.Īs if to kick South Africans while we are down, Ramaphosa is forcing the people of this country to pay the costs of providing electricity and water services to the very ministers who have robbed citizens of reliable access to these same services. Please find attached a soundbite by Dr Leon Schreiber MP.

Bills to pay for apartment