{"id":8273,"date":"2013-08-01T09:22:30","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T09:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8273"},"modified":"2013-08-01T09:26:40","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T09:26:40","slug":"lulu-xingwana-has-luxury-office-but-dirty-and-insect-infested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8273","title":{"rendered":"Lulu Xingwana has luxury office but dirty and insect-infested"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4004\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4004\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Lulu+Xingwana.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4004\" alt=\"Minister Lulu Xingwana\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Lulu+Xingwana-300x190.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Lulu+Xingwana-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Lulu+Xingwana.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4004\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minister Lulu Xingwana<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Women, Children and People with Disabilities Minister Lulu Xingwana has been told to improve the working conditions at her department&#8217;s head office in Pretoria, Beeld reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the newspaper, dirty carpets, insect infestations and other findings were cited in a report by the parliamentary portfolio committee for women, children and people with disabilities, which inspected the premises in March.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the report, which was tabled in Parliament on Wednesday, the committee reportedly said bathroom facilities in the building were unusable because some toilets and lights had been broken for nearly a year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Beeld reported that Xingwana was already under fire for overseas trips costing millions, allegedly financed with money shifted from core projects.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She had also reportedly been criticised for spending more than R2 million on luxury furniture for her own office. &#8211; sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women, Children and People with Disabilities Minister Lulu Xingwana has been told to improve the working conditions at her department&#8217;s head office in Pretoria, Beeld reported on Thursday. According to the newspaper, dirty carpets, insect infestations and other findings were cited in a report by the parliamentary portfolio committee for women, children and people with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8273\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lulu Xingwana has luxury office but dirty and insect-infested&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[4588,219,4589,2586,747],"class_list":["post-8273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-children-and-people-with-disabilities","tag-corruption","tag-dirty","tag-lulu-xingwana","tag-women"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Lulu+Xingwana.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8273","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8273"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8275,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8273\/revisions\/8275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}