As the Executive Authority of the Western Cape Department of Infrastructure and a member of the provincial legislature, I welcome the media enquiries into the application of my remuneration benefits as prescribed in my contract of employment, to which all public office bearers should be subjected.
It has been suggested that I have abused the state remuneration in terms of the housing benefits. However, I would like to set the record straight. My primary residence remains in the Garden Route which is +_450 km away from my seat of office. My family remains at that residence whilst I fulfill my functions as a member of the executive council for the Western Cape.
I have purchased 2 properties for investment purposes, but the purchase of these properties is of public knowledge as declared to the provincial Legislature and the provincial cabinet as per the current Ministerial Handbook. To date, there hasn’t been any objection to this. As a public official, I remain fully committed to transparency and being held accountable where appropriate.
The properties I purchased were never intended to be my residence – primary or otherwise. They (flats) were always purchased as an investment and do not simply by reason of their proximity to my seat of office disqualify me from the housing benefit provided for in the Ministerial Handbook. It is unfortunate that the choice of investment vehicle I have made is now being used to drive this line of questioning, but I submit it is a red herring – if I had rather invested in a share portfolio this issue would have been moot, yet the intention behind it is the same.
As the provincial Minister, I will not do anything that breaches nor contravenes the guidelines prescribed by the ministerial handbook. I have adhered to my oath of office as a member of the legislature and member of the executive council.
Romance Princess
Archeologists in South Africa have just discoved what they think is the oldest tampon ever found
They are trying to find out what period it came from.
Texas Butterfly
Van is getting married, but he and his fiancee have never done the deed – in fact he\’s never been with any woman before. He\’s getting more and more nervous as the big day approaches, so he confides in his friend. His friend says \’No worries man. I\’ll come by the honeymoon suite before you guys get there, and I\’ll hide behind the curtain, and I\’ll whisper instructions to you.\’
\’You\’d do that for me?\’
\’Sure thing man!\’
So the wedding day arrives, it was a lovely service (so I was told, I wasn\’t there myself) and Van\’s friend sneaks into the honeymoon suite as promised and hides behind the curtain.
Van and his new wife arrive in the room, get settled on the bed, and things are getting steamy.
But Van is still super nervous and his tummy is bubbling, so he murmers to his wife, \’Listen babe, I\’m just gonna go to the bathroom quick. I think it\’s that wors roll from earlier.\’
\’Sure thing babe.\’
So Van goes into the bathroom, and he\’s taking quite a long time. And his wife is starting to feel the nerves herself. And it\’s getting worse. She can\’t hold it in. But she doesn\’t want to go after he\’s gone and totally ruin the mood. So she looks around and finally finds a shoebox. Quickly, she does her business in the shoebox, and she shoves it under the bed just as Van comes back from the loo.
Van gets back on the bed and they go at it again. But after a minute or so Van smells something not so lekker.
\’What\’s that smell?\’
\’Nothing babe,\’ he wife tries to assure him.
\’No man there\’s definitely something not so lekker in this room!\’VSo Van starts looking around the room, in the corners, in the cupboard, and finally he looks under the bed, and sees the shoebox.
He pull it out, and opens it up, and in horror he shouts \’Sies! Daar\’s kak in hierdie doos!\’
And from behind the curtain his friend yells, \’NEE MAN, DRAAI HAAR OM!\”