Mapisa-Nqakulaâs Ministry one of the most expensive in Cabinet
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Defence and Military Veterans Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula.
Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakulaâs Ministry of Defence and Military Veterans is one of the most expensive in President Cyrilâs Ramaphosaâs Cabinet, an analysis prepared for one of Parliamentâs two defence oversight committees has it.
The Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans (PCDMV) this week heard the cost of Mapisa-Nqakulaâs Ministry for the 2021/22 financial year is R125.5 million âsignificantly higher than the R97.2 million spent in 2020/21â according to author Dr Wilhelm Janse van Rensburg.
The amount spent on the Defence Ministry is no new phenomenon and Parliament was made aware of it as far back as 2019. That was when Professor Jannie Rossouw of the Fiscal Cliff Study Group lamented the exorbitant cost of ministries in South Africa. He noted the DoD Ministry has one of the
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Military motorcycle patrol in the Beit Bridge area.
Shambolic scenes at at least two of South Africaâs major land ports of entry with deaths reported while waiting to be processed saw renewed calls for speedy implementation of the Border Management Authority (BMA) Act with its planned one-stop border posts.
This is in addition to what News24 Wire, as reported in The Citizen, said would see the Department of Defence (DoD) âlead in future border fence initiativesâ. The quote was attributed to Imtiaz Fazel, acting director-general in Minister Patricia De Lilleâs Department of Public Works and Infrastructure (DWPI). He was speaking during a Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) meeting discussing the multi-million Rand spend on a failed fence adjacent to the Beit Bridge port of entry, ostensibly part of government effort to prevent the spread of coronavirus.