What a minister earns

While there have been calls to reduce the size of the executive for years.

- Jarryd Westerdale

The increase in ministerial positions for the government of national unity (GNU) has raised questions about the cost of the bloated Cabinet.

The annual salaries for the 32 ministers and 42 deputy ministers will reach a little over R180 million a year alone. Ministers will get R2.68 million while their deputies will pocket R2.2 million annually.

Additionally, the parliamentary executives are collectively allocated R500 million for private security and an additional R390 million for support staff.

Having chosen not to participate in the GNU, but rather to apply pressure from the opposition benches, ActionSA highlighted the cost of President Cyril Ramaphosa's Cabinet.