MEC Meyer: unused government buildings cost taxpayers R1.7 billion a year

Durban — “The government will not shy away from selling state assets that it no longer needs, because keeping them unused is costing the fiscus.”This was announced by KwaZulu-Natal Public Works and Infrastructure MEC Martin Meyer during the handing over of the Esplanade Government Building in Durban to a contractor for renovation on Monday.The MEC was responding to a question often raised by people against privatising public assets. He said the provincial government was spending over R1 billion a year on rates and taxes, paying for buildings that were not being used.“We are not…