Government targets cost cuts with review of state-owned homes
The rates and taxes bill for state-owned homes occupied by public officials runs into tens of millions of rands every year, and the government is now looking at the way it manages its property portfolio.
Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson has ordered an investigation into the more than 6000 government-owned residential properties and wants a strategy to sell or repurpose those that are no longer needed for official duties.
So, you can actually imagine, now that figure is far higher, and our view is that we as Public Works and certainly as government, shouldn’t have the situation where we have all of these residential houses across the country, when in fact those officials are already getting housing allowances, as part of their benefits.
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