Ministers spending hundreds and thousands of rands on exterminating cockroaches is just one of the ways in which your hard-earned tax was put to use. And it’s ‘all legal.’Photo: Istock
Many of the expenses bear telltale signs of tender corruption. At one house in Kenilworth in Cape Town, more than R1.4 million was spent on renovating the kitchen. At a house in Waterkloof in Pretoria, the state paid more than R400 000 to fumigate to get rid of cockroaches. At least R54 000 was paid to replace a broken curtain rail at a house in Waterkloof Ridge in the capital city.
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