Tuesday, July 7, 2009

No MPs evicted from parliamentary villages

Acting public works department director-general Solly Malebye on Tuesday refuted media reports that former MPs still living in parliamentary villages in Cape Town were refusing to move out. (IOL)

Malebye also rejected reports that the former MPs had been served with eviction notices.

"Six [former] MPs have asked for an extension and two MPs who have changed political parties leading up to the elections are required to move out of their current houses and move to those allocated for their new political party," he said.

Malebye said the matter was being blown out of proportion as the department was receiving co-operation from all people concerned.

Nothing to see here folks... Move right along...There is no way that the ANC would ever be so rude as to treat it's MPs like regular citizens and actually evict them. The former MPs (let's call them what they really are) are now staying on the perogative of the minister of public works while the MPs waiting for those homes are racking up a hotel bill. It has been important to stop the rot early. We are finding out that it can be very expensive when "people" stay at the state's expense. Mr Aristide costs the South African government a mere R5million a year!

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