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Cyril Ramaphosa joins a long list of presidents taking a cut in salary...

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President Cyril Ramaphosa at the City of London Corporation's Commonwealth Business Forum Banquet on Tuesday, April 17 2018.

#Ramaphosa: I have decided to contribute half my Presidential salary to a fund to be managed by the Nelson Mandela Foundation Nelson and will direct resources to the many small social projects scattered across the country #ThumaMina #PresidencyBudget
— PresidencyZA (@PresidencyZA) May 23, 2018

Former Malawian president Joyce Banda - whose voluntary pay cut didn't save her when she was implicated in a corruption scandal.

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I hear Cyril Ramaphosa has decided to get 50% pay cut and donate the other half... are all MPs/parliamentarians going to do the same? #PresidencyBudget
— Kokwele M. Phillix (@Matome_Kay) May 23, 2018

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