Imagine spending R246 million on home renovations

Imagine spending R246 million on home renovations... what could you do with that amount of money?  

The damning evidence in Public Protector Thuli Madonsela's Nkandla report on the upgrades to President Jacob Zuma's private residence using taxpayers' money begs the ethical question of how our first citizen could have ''tacitly accepted" renovations on such a grand scale.

The initial project, which involved security upgrades to the Nkandla property, was only supposed to cost R27 million. That is still a lot of money when you consider what you could do with a budget like that, or how many homes could be built to house families in need.

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R3bn/year spend on leasing private office space

THE DEPARTMENT of public works spends over R3bn/year leasing office space in privately owned buildings on behalf of national government departments.
A review of these leases confirms government is being fleeced. Cabinet is outraged but shouldn’t be because irregular leases are the main reason the department’s audit opinions have got steadily worse over eight years and are now in the disclaimer zone. Public works and treasury won’t give figures on how much government is losing on leases; some officials believe the cost could be cut by 50% with better management.

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