{"id":1227461,"date":"2022-10-18T11:05:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T11:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/18\/south-africa-president-scraps-free-electricity-water-for-ministers\/"},"modified":"2022-10-18T11:05:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T11:05:45","slug":"south-africa-president-scraps-free-electricity-water-for-ministers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/18\/south-africa-president-scraps-free-electricity-water-for-ministers\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa President Scraps Free Electricity, Water For Ministers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>South Africa\u2019s President Cyril Ramaphosa has withdrawn controversial perks for cabinet ministers and their deputies that saw their homes supplied with free electricity and water.<\/p>\n<p>The benefits caused a public outcry as they were considered insensitive at a time South Africans are struggling with daily power cuts and rising cost of living.<\/p>\n<p>In a press briefing on Monday evening, a spokesman said the president \u201cacknowledges and appreciates the public sentiments on the matter\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The ministerial handbook, which outlines ministerial benefits, will be \u201caligned to the realities that many South Africans face\u201d, presidential spokesman Vincent Magwenya said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the intention behind the perks was \u201cnot a nefarious one\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe intention was to try and find some form of balance between what ministers could afford versus some of the costs that they have,\u201d he is quoted as saying the by the state news agency.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: BBC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 South Africa\u2019s President Cyril Ramaphosa has withdrawn controversial perks for cabinet ministers and their deputies that saw their homes supplied with free electricity and water. The benefits caused a public outcry as they were considered insensitive at a time South Africans are struggling with daily power cuts and rising cost of living. In a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1227463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1227461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1227461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1227461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1227461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}