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Minister of international relations & co-operation Naledi Pandor. Picture: FREDDY MAVUNDA/BUSINESS DAY
Thank goodness our courts still speak truth to power (“Court quashes decision to donate R50m in aid to Cuba”, October 29). In reality this was just a vanity project for international relations & co-operation minister Naledi Pandor.
Pandor speaks of the R50m as if it were nothing, a minor gift. Yet that amount would go far in supplementing payments to employees on the expanded public works programme. They are paid far less than the minimum wage because the government says it cannot afford the minimum wage, yet they often struggle to pay for transport to get to work and are just as desperate as those who need humanitarian aid in Cuba.
It is about time the ANC government started to think about its own people, or is that not part of its lexicon?
Michael Bagraim, MP DA deputy employment & labour spokesperson
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LETTER: Naledi Pandor’s Cuban vanity project
Thank goodness our courts still speak truth to power (“Court quashes decision to donate R50m in aid to Cuba”, October 29). In reality this was just a vanity project for international relations & co-operation minister Naledi Pandor.
Pandor speaks of the R50m as if it were nothing, a minor gift. Yet that amount would go far in supplementing payments to employees on the expanded public works programme. They are paid far less than the minimum wage because the government says it cannot afford the minimum wage, yet they often struggle to pay for transport to get to work and are just as desperate as those who need humanitarian aid in Cuba.
It is about time the ANC government started to think about its own people, or is that not part of its lexicon?
Michael Bagraim, MP
DA deputy employment & labour spokesperson
JOIN THE DISCUSSION: Send us an email with your comments to letters@businesslive.co.za. Letters of more than 300 words will be edited for length. Anonymous correspondence will not be published. Writers should include a daytime telephone number.
Court quashes decision to donate R50m in aid to Cuba
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