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KwaZulu-Natal Premier Zweli Mkhize with Zulu monarch King Goodwill Zwelithini at the official opening of the KwaZulu-Natal legislature at the Royal Agricultural Showgrounds, Pietermaritzburg, February 2012. Photo: Zandile Shange

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Presenting the department’s budget on Tuesday, premier Zweli Mkhize said R1.8 million of the new R59 million budget would not be available for spending because of unauthorised expenditure in the previous financial year.  

Support services for the king, such as maintaining his cars, buying clothes for his queens, and paying his children’s school fees and his own monthly allowance will cost R35,278 million, less than the R39,489 million budgeted last year.  

The department gets R20,484 million to refurbish and renovate the king's palaces, while R3,6 million was made available to maintain his farms.

Mkhize said the king did much to promote SA both locally and internationally. He hosted dignitaries such as the Prince of Wales and, said Mkhize, his “visionary leadership” included reviving cultural festivals and calling for male circumcision, to lessen the transmission of HIV/Aids.

Source: The Witness

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Tue Jun 18 09:25:09 SAST 2013 ::

May 30, 2012

MissBhakajuju

this mornacry is such a big joke. LOL

someone being paid millions, for playing with his Spear, for the whole day..........
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May 30, 2012

ThirdEye

Again??? this is crazy.
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May 30, 2012

dimpho_4U

@MissBhakajuju.."millions for playing with his spear the whole day"hahahahahah...wa tsegisa
talk about royal money 4million increase!!
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May 30, 2012

YNOTY

Mr Mkhize...are you drunk?
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May 30, 2012

TKay

Here is another Mswati - how is this royal family helping the economic growth of our country
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May 30, 2012

Phunyukabemphethe

OMG, this another Robert Mugabe.
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May 30, 2012

Msola321

This is beyond too much....Im sick now just for the King and his family only, what more important abt his family surely we have many Kings and Queen in the country but the are not allocated to that much. This what we Voted for Zuma for....?
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May 30, 2012

Tarantula

This country is a joke, why do we have to maintain this King with our tax money. Firstly he is not my king but he gets a share of my tax money. They should have taken that money & bought water for Loius Trichardt hospital or buy textbooks for Limpopo students & Eastern Cape students. We are governed by a bunch of nonentities who knows nothing about running the country.
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May 30, 2012

guiliano

Lets do away with kings.
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May 30, 2012

Champ-Lekabaza

Mkhize said the king did much to promote SA both locally and internationally. He hosted dignitaries such as the Prince of Wales and, said Mkhize, his “visionary leadership”
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Wow so much money to host "dignitaries"?I really am battling to understand why these people are being paid.
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