WHEN THE PM GOES SHOPPING

Prime Minister Sibusiso Dlamini leaving the Hi-Fi Corporation store at the Mbabane Industrial Sites after purchasing stoves yesterday.

MBABANE - Yesterday, Prime Minister Sibusiso Dlamini splashed E25 000 buying five Defy electric stoves from Hi-Fi Corporation store at the Mbabane Industrial Sites.

He also wrote out a cheque to the Nazarene Church, where he is a member, paying tithes.
Even though he did not disclose the figure he paid for the tithes, based on the fact that tithes constitute 10 per cent of earnings, the PM may have paid E13 365 to his church.
He is a devoted member of the KaBhekinkhosi Nazarene Church and the cheque would be handed over to the church in today’s service.

Following the review of salaries for civil servants, the PM was paid an amount of E133 652, which consisted of a basic salary of E77 197 and backpay of E56 455.
His basic salary was reviewed from E58 379.17 per month.

Reporters spoke to the PM yesterday while he was window-shopping for the stoves around the capital city. He was interviewed just when he had completed the E25 000 transaction, outside the recently-opened HiFi Corporation store.  The PM said he bought the stoves at E5 000 apiece, to install them for use in his newly-completed flats, whose location he asked not to disclose.
On the issue of tithes, the PM said he paid it from his gross salary, instead of the net (after deductions pay).

“Before I start spending my salary, I offer tithes to the church I am a member of,” he said. He said paying tithes was important because it was God’s commandment, which is revealed in several texts in the bible. “I give tithes from my gross salary and do it happily. I would encourage the nation to pay tithes because that money belongs to God,” he said.

The PM said he was faithful in paying tithes, such that even when it came to his livestock, every tenth born of a goat or cow was handed over to the church as an offering. He said he paid the tithes without expecting or demanding anything from God.
“I do not expect anything in return but God has blessed me a lot as a result of obeying the command. God blesses me according to his will and not that by paying tithes I expect anything. At his pleasure, uyangibonelela kutsi ngidzingani (he decides what is fit for me). He also said he was yet to decide on how to spend the rest of his bumper pay.

He, however, said some of the money would be spent on his five children and 37 grandchildren. He said he was still deciding on the treat for his family.

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