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Pieter Groenewald Quotes

born 1955

Pieter Groenewald (born 27 August, 1955) is a South African politician who is currently serving as Minister of Correctional Services since July 2024.He served as the Leader of the Freedom Front Plus from November 2016 until February 2025. He started his political career by being elected Mayor of Stilfontein in 1988.

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Offenders now bake bread for their own consumption in our own bakeries, reducing costs to the taxpayer

The running cost for a prisoner per day is R482 for the taxpayer. Foreign nationals cost South African taxpayers R13.5 million per day

I mean, if you go to a supermarket or anywhere else, that is a top-end price. It was more expensive than retail.

What he did was subcontract it out for, say, R15.00 a loaf. So he was pocketing a million rand a month doing absolutely nothing. I stopped that,”

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Pieter Groenewald (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.