{"id":118246,"date":"2016-03-29T16:13:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T14:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=118246"},"modified":"2016-03-30T16:46:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T14:46:17","slug":"r50000-booze-bill-for-sa-deputy-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/118246\/r50000-booze-bill-for-sa-deputy-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"R50,000 booze bill for SA deputy minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Minister of Correctional Services, Thabang Makwetla, claimed R50,146 for alcoholic beverages over a period of less than a year, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/politics\/deputy-minister-spent-r50-000-on-booze-2001838\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday Independent reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The revelation comes despite calls from South Africa&#8217;s finance minister, Pravin Gordhan, to eliminate\u00a0wasteful expenditure amid a tightening budget.<\/p>\n<p>The Sunday Independent reported that from February 2015 to January this year, Makwetla claimed R225,199 for meals in entertainment allowances, including R50,146 for booze.<\/p>\n<p>This meant that the deputy minister claimed R<span id=\"cwos\" class=\"cwcot\">20,472 each month in entertainment allowances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Department of Correctional Services defended the deputy minister&#8217;s claims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(The) deputy minister is a member of the executive and he does have meetings with external stakeholders and also with other community members, etc,\u201d a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>In delivering his budget speech for 2016, Gordhan proposed that the government&#8217;s expenditure ceiling be cut over the next three years by R25 billion, &#8216;mainly by curtailing personnel spending&#8217;.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on wasteful expenditure<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/115832\/how-much-the-sa-government-blows-on-travel-every-year\/\">How much money the SA government blows on travel every year<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/110695\/small-business-minister-blows-r700000-on-overseas-trip\/\">Small business minister blows R700,000 on overseas trip<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/105199\/biggest-wasteful-spenders-in-sa-government\/\">Biggest wasteful spenders in SA government<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Minister of Correctional Services, Thabang Makwetla, claimed R50,146 for alcoholic beverages over a period of less than a year, the Sunday Independent reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":81881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-118246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118246"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118442,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118246\/revisions\/118442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}