Chester Missing – the ‘political analyst’ puppet – has reacted angrily to a current report revealing that ministers and their deputies in South Africa are exempt from paying for any municipal companies – which embody water and electrical energy.
This follows backlash after President Cyril Ramaphosa up to date the ministerial handbook in April, allowing these in workplace to qualify without cost utilities
MINISTERS GET FREE WATER, ELECTRICITY, AND PLENTY OF PERKS
In a report revealed this week, it was revealed that along with SA ministers getting a multi-million Rand wage every year, they had been aware about perks like free water and electrical energy.
According to the up to date ministerial handbook that got here into impact on 13 April, “the department responsible for public works shall be responsible for the costs associated with the provision of water and electricity to official residences”.
Previously ministers had a R5000 cap on their water and electrical energy payments at their official residences on the Bryntirion Estate in Pretoria. According to Rapport, this is identical substation that gives uninterrupted energy to the Union Buildings
And for these residing of their non-public residences, City Press experiences that the federal government spent over R2 million to buy mills for cupboard members and their deputies’ non-public use.
It doesn’t cease there. President Ramaphosa additionally elevated the funds for luxurious car purchasing, added the publication.
CHESTER MISSING IS IRATE
Following the information that has upset many South Africans, Chester Missing weighed in together with his tongue-in-cheek outlook on the injustice.
He jokingly mentioned of ministers who’re exempt from load shedding and utility payments: “Why? It’s not like that truly doing any work. Apparently, they have to be obtainable 24 hours a day. For what?
“What does [transport minister] Fikile Mbalula have to be obtainable for twenty-four hours a day? Does he have an emergency selfie he must take or a excessive precedence TikTok he must see to?
“Does [public enterprise minister] Pravin Gordhan really want electrical energy so he can do what he has been doing about load-shedding this whole time: completely freakin’ nothing? You don’t want electrical energy to do something, Pravin. Ask residence affairs [department].
“Have you seen Gwede Mantashe? The financial system will do higher if we take away his electrical energy. It’s ironic. They’re not in a position to ensure we get electrical energy or water, and so they dont must pay for it.
He added: “With the amount of sh** ministers give us, the very least they can do is pay to flush it away”.
TWEEPS AGREE!
Chester Missing’s views had been echoed by Jacaranda FM presenter Rob Forbes.
He tweeted: “No Minister in South Africa deserves free water or power, while the rest of us struggle. The fact that they get these things for free while we carry Eskom/NERSA increases and watershedding fees, is ridiculous”.
And tweeps agreed too…
@michaelvilj37: “If they are given free house, free transport, free electricity and water, then surely they can have their pay cut by at least 66%. Since they don’t have any living costs. Must be hard to earn so much and not have any reason to spend it, yet it still disappears”
@Fallen_Ang3l78: “So clearly they will even worry less due to having generators. Probably get free petrol and diesel as well. Their electricity must be off first and longer than ours”
@DURITZ79: “@CyrilRamaphosa how do you justify giving a cabinet minister that earns R2,4million an annum free electricity and water? While people are dying from power outages at public hospitals and children are drowning in pit toilets at public schools?”
@Yvonne39676406: “You would think they would feel a sense of shame. Even the poor are paying for there water and electricity. It’s a travesty. Very sad reflection on the governing party”