{"id":3983,"date":"2011-08-29T17:43:13","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T15:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/?p=3983"},"modified":"2011-08-29T17:46:59","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T15:46:59","slug":"shock-images-of-deputy-ministers-cape-town-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/shock-images-of-deputy-ministers-cape-town-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Shock Images of Deputy Minister’s Cape Town Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Pieter Mulder, FF Plus leader and deputy minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries saves South African taxpayers thousands of rand by not making use of a ministerial house.<\/p>\n

According to a question in Parliament, the government spent R183 million on buying new homes for ministers and deputy ministers. This works out to be an average of R5,4 million per house. These costs do not include improvements, furniture and the safeguarding of the houses.<\/p>\n

\u201cDr. Mulder is, as a deputy minister, entitled to live in such a ministerial house in Bryntirion, Pretoria or the Groote Schuur compound in Cape Town. With his appointment as deputy minister in 2009, he chose not to make use of it. Dr. Mulder lives in Pretoria privately and with family and it does not cost the state anything. In Cape Town he chose to keep on living in his house in Acacia Park where he has always been living as a Parliamentarian. No extra costs were necessary in this case as well,\u201d says Pieter Groenewald (MP), the national chairperson of the Freedom Front Plus.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is in contrast to, for example, the premier of Gauteng, Ms. Nomvula Mokonyane who, according to reports, got the state to spend more than R2 million last year to improve her official residence. The residence was purchased in 2004 for the amount of R11,5 million following which R8,4 million was spent immediately to improve it. Taxpayer\u2019s money is not only used to buy minister\u2019s houses. Last year R3,7 million was spent on a house for Gen. Bheki Cele, national police commissioner. A new house was purchased for him for the amount of R2,9 million in Waterkloof and R732 000 was spent on improvements to the house,\u201d Groenewald said.<\/p>\n

Mr. Pieter Groenewald: FF Plus MP<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The house in Acacia Park in Cape Town in which Dr. Pieter Mulder is living. A minister\u2019s house in Cape Town or Pretoria was offered to Dr. Mulder when he was appointed as deputy minister. He turned the offer down. He chose to save taxpayers\u2019 money by making use of private accommodation in Pretoria. In Cape Town he makes use of the house in which he has been living since he had become Member of Parliament. It does not cost the state any extra money. Various reports appeared in newspapers about the R183 million which has been used to purchase new luxury houses, valued at R5 million for deputy ministers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Acacia Park, where parliamentarians reside during Parliamentary sessions, is an old military base dating from the Second World War era. The military sleeping messes were remodelled into houses following the war in 1948 and have, since the fifties, been used for parliamentary services. This is the back of the house in which Dr. Pieter Mulder resides in Acacia Park, which is anything but luxurious.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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