Pravin Gordhan

Title: Minister of Finance
Vehicle: 2007 Toyota Prius
Optional extras: Onboard computer, featuring Excel spreadsheet compatibility for accounting on-the-go.
Details: Financially-minded ministers are well aware of the importance of fuel economy. The Prius is a famously frugal fuel-sipper, guaranteed to keep running costs minute even if the petrol price rockets once again.

Dr Aaron Motsoaledi

Title: Minister of Health
Vehicle: 2009 Volvo XC60 3.0T Geartronic
Standard with: City Safety system
Details: Volvo's City Safety system stops the car automatically to avoid low-speed impacts that are common in city traffic, thus reducing the likelihood of the minister ending up in a hospital... or even worse, a public hospital.

Nathi Mthethwa

Title: Minister of Police
Vehicle: 2009 Golf 5 GTi (in white)
Optional extras: Flashing blue lights behind the grill and in the back window; tracker unit (in case it gets stolen)
Details: On jaunts down to the Cape, Minister Mthethwa wouldn't look out of place in one of the undercover 'Ghost Squad' vehicles, pulling unsuspecting wrong-doers off the road (with Bheki riding shotgun and Fikile in the back, of course).

Barbara Hogan

Title: Minister of Public Enterprises
Vehicle: Optimal Energy's Joule
Standard with: Two battery packs
Details: Admittedly, the Joule has yet to be launched (they're aiming for late 2010), but it sounds just perfect for Barbara. Optimal Energy, a privately-owned South African company based in Cape Town, will produce Africa's first all-electric vehicle. The battery packs will take approximately seven hours to charge. Now if only Eskom could keep the lights on long enough...

Sbusiso Ndebele

Title: Minister of Transport
Vehicle: Rea Vaya bus
Standard with: Bullet holes
Details: Well, we'd actually only issue S'bu with a ticket (rather than the entire bus)...

Tokyo Sexwale

Title: Minister of Human Settlements
No government-issue vehicle is likely to rival to Tokyo's private fleet... so we're not even going to try.

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