Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Pandor panders to ego with TWO new Mercedes ML350

The science and technology department has spent R1.4m on TWO Mercedes-Benz ML350's for Minister Naledi Pandor. (News24)

In her reply, Pandor said one of the previous two vehicles had a gearbox fault and the cars had registered 141 000km and 106 000km respectively.

A reply to another question, showed the police department had spent R1.3m on replacement vehicles for Minister Nathi Mthethwa - two BMW X5s.

Extras included reverse cameras, navigation system, and sport suspension, coming to about R200 000.

In his reply, Mthethwa said the two previous vehicles - a BMW X5, 2003 model and an Audi A8 2006 model, were both "mechanical[ly] unsound".

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