{"id":12534,"date":"2014-01-07T11:41:32","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T11:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12534"},"modified":"2014-01-07T11:41:32","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T11:41:32","slug":"nw-premier-defends-buying-r1-3m-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12534","title":{"rendered":"NW Premier defends buying R1.3m car"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12535\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12535\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/beemer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12535\" alt=\"beemer\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/beemer.jpg\" width=\"290\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12535\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The German contribution to the struggle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">North West Premier Thandi Modise\u2019s office says the purchase of a R1.3 million vehicle was above board and ordered before Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan announced austerity measures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Modise recently purchased a BMW 750i despite Gordhan&#8217;s announcement last year that excessive spending on cars, travel, accommodation and other luxuries would be curbed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Her office insists that the decision to purchase the vehicle was taken by the Department of Public Works and was below the 70 percent limit prescribed by the ministerial handbook.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Modise&#8217;s spokesperson Lesiba Kgwele says it is unfair to blame the premier who had no choice in the matter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe question of morality goes way beyond this particular transaction. In this particular instance, we want to insist that the premier didn&#8217;t defy any cabinet directives.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North West Premier Thandi Modise\u2019s office says the purchase of a R1.3 million vehicle was above board and ordered before Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan announced austerity measures. Modise recently purchased a BMW 750i despite Gordhan&#8217;s announcement last year that excessive spending on cars, travel, accommodation and other luxuries would be curbed. Her office insists that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12534\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NW Premier defends buying R1.3m car&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[64,2851,219,7097,7957,7956,1670,722],"class_list":["post-12534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-anc","tag-bmw","tag-corruption","tag-finance-minister-pravin-gordhan","tag-luxury-german-cars","tag-north-west-premier","tag-poverty","tag-thandi-modise"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/beemer.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12536,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12534\/revisions\/12536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}