“Would it not be wise to look at doing away with Parliamentary villages altogether and saying to members they must look after their own accommodation on a fixed allowance of some sort rather than spending a lot of money rebuilding these houses?,” asks Alf Lees, DA MP.
The electricity for at least one of the villages is R10 million a year while transport for MPs at one stage was R11 million, although the department says this has significantly decreased. Meanwhile, the Special Investigating Unit says even contractors are milking the department on maintenance work. The SIU says collusion between officials and contractors must be eliminated and project management be strengthened.
The Department says it spent just under R4 million on official funerals. On funerals of political veterans like Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, costs were inflated by R10 million, and they are being recovered.
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