Dear MyPE Last week, the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) revealed that no fewer than 6 140 government officials fraudulently claimed over R41 million from the Temporary Employment Relief Scheme (TERS) managed by the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF). This revelation represents a shameful new low for the public service that should anger all honest and hard-working officials and taxpayers. The TERS fund was created to support the millions of employees in the private sector whose … [Read more...] about We must have ACTION against crooked cadres who stole R41 million from hungry families
Dr Leon Schreiber
No money for Covid vaccines, but cadres demand 10% salary hike
Editor: CLICK HERE to see why I say; "Pot!" Dear MyPE Following recent reports that the ongoing looting of the state means that National Treasury has no money left to pay for life-saving Covid vaccines, it is appalling that some public sector unions are nonetheless demanding that their salaries be increased by as much as 10%. In the current context of profound suffering and rapidly accelerating economic decline, which was engineered by decades of ANC misrule and the government’s … [Read more...] about No money for Covid vaccines, but cadres demand 10% salary hike
The millions wasted every year on luxury flights for former ministers
Dear MyPE At a time when millions of private sector workers have lost their jobs and when the government has announced that it no longer even has money to build houses for the vulnerable, the DA can reveal that Parliament has spent tens of millions of Rands on business class flight tickets for retired ministers, deputy ministers, and their spouses since the ANC came to power. This information has never been made public before and was painstakingly gathered by the DA over the past … [Read more...] about The millions wasted every year on luxury flights for former ministers
ANC paid cadres and state employees R11 billion not to work, while the lockdown destroyed the private economy
Dear MyPE While the best available estimates show that over 3 million people in the private sector have already lost their jobs and that a fifth of private sector employees did not receive a salary in June as a result of the ANC lockdown crisis, the DA can exclusively reveal that at least 84 337 cadres and public servants were paid their full salaries during the lockdown to do nothing. According to National Treasury, the average salary in the public service is R393 000 per annum, or R32 … [Read more...] about ANC paid cadres and state employees R11 billion not to work, while the lockdown destroyed the private economy
Disgusted by Nehawu’s plan to capture lockdown crisis relief funds
Dear MyPE The Democratic Alliance (DA) is repulsed by the level of selfishness displayed by the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) at a time of national crisis. In the midst of this ANC lockdown crisis, Nehawu has conclusively demonstrated to South Africans that they are prepared to doom millions of people in the productive private sector to destitution, just to further add to the ill-gotten gains of incompetent ANC cadres in the public service. This comes … [Read more...] about Disgusted by Nehawu’s plan to capture lockdown crisis relief funds
Government pays R2.6 billion bonus to millionaire managers
Dear MyPE The Democratic Alliance (DA) can today reveal that, in the 2018/19 financial year, national and provincial governments spent R2.6 billion of public money on bonuses for cadres and millionaire managers. This includes R628 million spent by the national government, and R1.97 billion spent by provinces. These bonuses are paid to cadres in management positions on top of their average annual salary of R1.4 million per year. In a clear demonstration that the government rewards … [Read more...] about Government pays R2.6 billion bonus to millionaire managers
Lifestyles of the rich and the shameless
Dear MyPE The Democratic Alliance can today, for the first time, reveal how the government has spent nearly R60 million since 2016 on the lifestyles of former presidents, former deputy presidents, and their spouses. Following a request under the Promotion of Access to Information Act, the DA has obtained a copy of the “Policy on the Benefits of Executive Office,” a document published in March 2009 which outlines how the state maintains the millionaire lifestyles of former presidents, … [Read more...] about Lifestyles of the rich and the shameless
