There is an intermittent discussion about moving parliament from Cape Town to Pretoria — or somewhere else in Gauteng — to cut costs. The discussion always quickly fizzles out before it goes anywhere.

Now that the government appears in desperate need of ideas to cut costs, it is worth considering such radical ideas, including scrapping provincial administrations...

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