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Watch – Department of Social Development defends R3m New York trip as 'modest'

Earlier this year, the Department of Social Development spent R3-million of taxpayers' money on a trip to New York for seven officials. Now, the department has told Parliament that this price tag was 'actually modest'. Daily Maverick's Rebecca Davis explains.
Rebecca Davis
By Rebecca Davis
19 Oct
Frame 193 Illustrative image: Daily Maverick | Special adviser Ngwako Kgatla; Minister of Social Development Sisisi Tolashe; Social Development Director-General Peter Netshipale.

Reporting by: Rebecca Davis
Edited by: Joel Seboa
Filmed by: Bernard Kotze & Joel Seboa
Produced by: Emilie Gambade
Creative input: Malibongwe Tyilo
Sub-edited by: Robyn Leary

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Eddie Maulson Oct 20, 2025, 07:38 AM

The insult to one's intelligence is that one is expected to believe the downright nonsense spouted by these so called "honourable leaders".