Patricia de Lille

Note to editors: Please find attached soundbite by Dr Leon Schreiber MP. The Democratic Alliance (DA) notes that the Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure ...

I look forward to the opportunity to publicly debate De Lille. We have also introduced legislation to Parliament that will make the Ministerial Handbook subject to full parliamentary oversight and accountability. There is however a serious problem with this cop-out: there is no law that provides for the existence of the Ministerial Handbook in the first place. I can confirm that the letter was delivered to the DA digitally, presumably because the ANC government that De Lille is part of has destroyed the Post Office. To combat this illegal abuse of taxpayers by Ramaphosa’s government, the DA has already laid a complaint with the Public Protector. De Lille’s secondary, and equally weak, defense, is that we should not question whether it is appropriate for people who have run our country into the ground to live like rockstars at taxpayer expense, because the Ministerial Handbook entitles them to live like this.

Public works and infrastructure minister Patricia de Lille this week revealed public-funded mansions occupied by ministers and their deputies in Cape Town ...

The total number of houses occupied by ministers and deputy ministers in Cape Town and Pretoria is 97. In Cape Town, 26 ministers and 32 deputy ministers reside in state-owned residences, while in Pretoria, the numbers are 14 and 25, respectively. Public works and infrastructure minister Patricia de Lille this week revealed public-funded mansions occupied by ministers and their deputies in Cape Town and Pretoria are collectively worth more than R967m.

The DA has reported to the Public Protector that ANC ministers and deputy ministers have been living in state-owned residences at a whopping cost of R1 ...

In Pretoria, 14 ministers and 25 deputy ministers currently occupy these mansions. "In Cape Town, 26 ministers and 32 deputy ministers live in state-owned residences. The DA has reported to the Public Protector that ANC ministers and deputy ministers have been living in state-owned residences at a whopping cost of R1 billion, "courtesy of taxpayers".

Public Works and Infrastructure minister, Patricia De Lille accused Democratic Alliance's (DA) MP Dr Leon Schreiber of insinuating that the government is ...

The Groote Schuur Estate in Cape Town and the Bryntirion Estate in Pretoria, which has several ministerial residences and residences of the president and deputy president was, in fact, acquired by the apartheid government for this purpose,” she elaborates. “We have also introduced legislation to parliament that will make the Ministerial Handbook subjected to full parliamentary oversight and accountability. This was a practice we inherited and it’s due to the structure of government, with parliament in Cape Town and the seat of government or the executive being in Pretoria. Are they delivering services to the people of the country that justify this?” This comes after Schreiber had made assertions that De Lille could “continue to defend her ANC cadres living in 97 mansions valued at nearly R1 billion. Free vehicles.