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The DA wants the issue of free flights for retired ministers, MPs and their spouses to the tune of 10 million rand a year to be urgently placed on the agenda of the body that oversees the spending of the parliament’s budget.
This comes after the Sunday Times reported that parliament was spending more than R9.5 million of taxpayers’ money on free business class flights for retired ministers, deputy ministers and their spouses, despite the benefit being removed in November 2019, when the ministerial manual was revised. .
The Sunday Times obtained the information, which had been kept confidential, following a request from deputy prosecutor Leon Schreiber in terms of the Access to Information Promotion Act.
Spending on flights, which stood at just over R45 million when dating back to 2014, was described as a slap in the face to the poor at a time when the country’s tax revenue base was shrinking and millions of people joined. to the ranks of the unemployed.
Schreiber said on Wednesday that he had written to Peace Mabe, an ANC deputy and chairman of the joint standing committee on the financial management of parliament (JSCFMP), requesting that the issue be placed on the agenda for their next meeting.
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