And‚ if the Democratic Alliance (DA) is to be believed‚ it’s a favourite of Minister of Social Development Bathabile Dlamini too.Her “lavish taste in luxury accommodation”‚ the opposition party said on Wednesday‚ has seen her stay at the same “luxury Oyster Box hotel on no less than 31 occasions”This came after the DA’s Bridget Masango said she had been “reliably informed” that her recent one-night stay at the Oyster Box was in an R11 000-a-night suite – a stay that Dlamini is seemingly reluctant to talk about. “The DA urges Dlamini to break her silence and make public who paid for these stays‚” Masango said‚ adding that she “refused to provide comment” when quizzed by News24 on the issue.“If Dlamini had nothing to hide it would be a simple thing for her to tell the nation who footed the bill for all these hotel stays.” Masango said the revelations of the costly stays follows her “recent reply to a DA parliamentary question in which she asserts that R753 a month is ‘adequate’ for social grant beneficiaries”.“Whether she made a calculation error or simply never looks at invoices when doing shopping or checking into hotels remains a mystery‚ as she has neither confirmed nor denied the luxury stay at the Oyster Box‚” said Masango. She said Dlamini’s department had spent R12-million on foreign and R96-million on local travel in the last financial year.“South Africans‚ who are battling to get by on soaring food prices‚ deserve to know if this high expenditure has been extended to hotel stays too‚” said Masango. ..