News24 | PODCAST | The Lead: Billions for blue lights, SA’s VIP protection splurge with Jan Gerber

5 500 RDP homes. This is what R1.47bn could’ve gone towards. Instead, that’s how much taxpayers spent to protect the president and his executive since 2020. And this cost may only increase.

R1.47bn.

This is how much the government has spent on protecting its VIPs from the 2020/21 financial year to date. And it’s not even the full picture of the cost. It’s especially mind-boggling, given that around R2.3bn has been set aside just this year alone to keep VIPs safe.

To make sense of the numbers for The Lead, we’re joined in our Cape Town studio by our senior parliamentary journalist, Jan Gerber.

Later in the show, the DA is finalising its replacement for the deputy trade minister in the GNU.

And finally, The Stormers unveil their new look!

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