please unsubribe On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Dominic Tweedie <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Patrick Craven <[email protected]> > Date: 2009/9/7 > Subject: [COSATU Press] COSATU says No to ministers' expensive cars > To: [email protected] > > > *[image: COSATUpng.png]*** > > *COSATU says No to ministers’ expensive cars* > > The Congress of South African Trade Unions congratulates Finance Minister > Pravin Gordhan on his decision to buy a modest Lexus car for R557 673 and an > Audi A8 for R590 500. > > This is a welcome decision to respond to the public anger at the > unnecessary expenditure of up to R1.4 million per vehicle on cars for other > government ministers. This criticism applies to all those who have purchased > these top-of-the-range BMWs without exception. > > The federation agrees that the procurement of official vehicles for > ministers must always take account of safety and security issues and we also > stress that the ministers concerned have done nothing illegal but have > complied with the requirements of the government rule book. The problem is > that the rules themselves, contained in an apartheid-era hand book, need to > be changed, and welcomes reports that the government is now reviewing them. > > If ministers are allowed to purchase expensive cars at taxpayers’ expense > it gives an impression that they do not care about the message this opulence > gives to the poor. Spending so much money on vehicles is a slap in the face > of the unemployed and people living in shanty towns. It gives politics a bad > name and encourages the view that government office is a stepping stone to > quick and easy personal wealth. > > COSATU calls on ministers who have used the government rule-book to buy > themselves R1-plus vehicles to kindly return them and replaces them with the > kind of modest cars bought by Comrade Pravin Gordhan and others. > > The federation demands that government adopts a new set of rules based on > the revolutionary ethos and morality of the ANC-led liberation movement, so > that in future minsters are seen to be setting an example of promoting the > public interest and not their own selfish interests. > > Patrick Craven (National Spokesperson) > > Congress of South African Trade Unions > > 1-5 Leyds Cnr Biccard Streets > > Braamfontein, 2017 > > > > P.O. Box 1019 > > Johannesburg, 2000 > > SOUTH AFRICA > > > > Tel: +27 11 339-4911/24 > > Fax: +27 11 339-5080/6940/ 086 603 9667 > > Cell: 0828217456 > > E-Mail: [email protected] > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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