JUSTICE MALALA | Pseudo royalty must get off their high horses and get a job
It is inexplicable that political parties and unions that champion the poor sit by as billions of taxpayer’s money is allocated to so-called royalty
04 September 2022 - 18:25
What exactly do SA’s traditional leaders do that is of value and why are we still paying them? We have eight kings, one queen, plus more than five-thousand chiefs, “headmen” and other minor “royals” traipsing around the country and being paid millions in taxpayers’ money. What, pray tell, are they for? Who do they account to?..
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