THE DA says it will write to Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana to request that the R1 billion set to be “wasted on a sponsorship for Tottenham Hotspur be immediately reallocated to buy diesel for Eskom to lower loadshedding”.
This comes after the news leaked that South Africa is pursuing a sponsorship deal with Premier League club Tottenham, following in the footsteps of the United Arab Emirates, Rwanda, Malta and others who have used the world’s biggest soccer league to promote their countries.
Tottenham’s north London rival Arsenal has a “Visit Rwanda” message on its shirt sleeve, while UAE’s two official airlines, Emirates and Etihad, are the principal sponsors of Arsenal and Manchester City, respectively.
“National Treasury has repeatedly claimed that there is no additional money for diesel. But the fact that the ANC government has R1 billion to waste on a foreign soccer sponsorship – as confirmed by the acting
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