Police minister Bheki Cele is in the spotlight this week — not for crime-fighting efforts but for a controversial Rugby World Cup trip in France in which SAPS spent nearly half a million rand for his executive assistant to attend with him.
The minister, in a question-and-answer in parliament, said SAPS spent R446,339.43 for his executive assistant to attend the RWC final.
Cele’s trip expenses were paid for by a private company, but SAPS also spent a further R33,256 for his stay in France.
Civil rights group Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse’s (Outa) believes the minister should be called to parliament to account for the money spent by the department on the trip.
Outa CEO Wayne Duvenage, speaking to TimesLIVE, described the spending as “unnecessary”.
“We have a government that is broke but finds it fit to spend money in this manner. It is an unnecessary expenditure and it sends a clear messag
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