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When it's all added up the full salary amount that 'club members' receive puts them into the rarefied stratosphere of the top 0,1% of all earners in South Africa. Our President sits at the apex of the golden triangle, pulling in a cool R2,3 million a year. Then come national ministers on R1, 8 million a year, provincial premier's on R1, 6 million, deputy ministers at R1,5 million and the 'poor' provincial MECs who have to make do with R1,4 million. When compared to the average salary of a worker which now stands at around R35 000 a year, not to mention the jobless millions whose average income from all sources tops out at R15 000 a year, this exclusive club of public representatives constitutes nothing less than a political aristocracy.
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