Tourism · GOOD
Patricia de Lille
GOODR232 680/mo equivalent · 2025/26 refLegacy grade B · evidence review
Patricia de Lille serves as Tourism minister (GOOD). This tracker shows 2025/26 gazetted Minister package reference of R2 792 155 per year — R232 680 per month equivalent, effective 1 April 2025. This role reference does not establish the exact package effective from 1 April 2026. A Presidency statement dated 20 January 2026 says a 3.8% National Executive increase takes effect from 1 April 2026; Gazette 53965 itself states 1 April 2025. M4 checked the current Remuneration Commission determination and recommendation libraries, which remain labelled 2025-26 and expose no 2026/27 Executive schedule. Odyssey therefore keeps the exact 2026-effective package unresolved, does not calculate it from 3.8%, and does not assume either official date is a typo. This profile retains a legacy Odyssey A-F scorecard for editorial context, but M3 does not re-certify that grade as a current performance rating. 2 of 3 KPI snapshots are directly reconciled to primary sources; the remaining KPI values and the legacy budget-spend field remain review-required.
Remuneration reference — 2025/26 gazetted Minister package reference
Annual package reference
R2 792 155
Monthly equivalent
R232 680
Salary gradeGrade EC — Pay Level 1
Appointed3 July 2024
Statusactive
Department budgetDepartment of Tourism (Vote 38)
Official vehicleState-allocated vehicle (within R800,000 threshold)
Remuneration source — Government Gazette 53965, Notice 7004
Official gazette · effective 1 April 2025 ↗Presidency announcement: +3.8% from 1 April 2026. M4 found no 2026/27 National Executive determination or recommendation in the checked Commission libraries, so the exact updated package remains pending source reconciliation in Odyssey; it is not derived by arithmetic.
M4 source-cycle status: official-cycle-conflict-no-2026-27-schedule-found
No exact 2026-effective Minister, Deputy President or Deputy Minister package is published by Odyssey from this check. The known 3.8% announcement is shown separately from the exact 2025/26 Gazette schedule.
B
Legacy Odyssey Scorecard · Grade B · evidence review
Grade retained as editorial history; M3 does not translate it into a salary “value for money” verdict.
Odyssey's A-F grades are legacy editorial syntheses, not official government ratings and not re-certified by M3. M3 separates direct primary-source KPI snapshots from legacy unreconciled values; unreconciled targets, traffic lights, budget-spend rates, achievements and failures must not be read as current verified facts.
Tourism recovery strong. International arrivals nearing pre-pandemic levels, community tourism expanding.
Key Performance Indicators
International tourist arrivalsReview required Comparison basis
No same-period pass/fail threshold; 2029 growth-plan horizon tracked separately
Source-dated actual
10.48 million in calendar 2025
Evidence: direct primary snapshot · January–December 2025. The Department of Tourism reports a record 10.48 million arrivals in 2025. M3 does not retain the old 10.5 million pre-COVID benchmark as a minister pass/fail target.
Tourism direct contribution to GDPReview required Comparison basis
No same-period minister-level target reconciled in M3
Source-dated actual
4.9% of GDP in 2024
Evidence: direct primary snapshot · 2024 Tourism Satellite Account. The Department reports Stats SA direct tourism GDP contribution of 4.9% for 2024. M3 does not compare it to the legacy 4.5% target because the source/basis of that target was not reconciled.
Working for Tourism jobsReview required Legacy target · unreconciled
5,000 community beneficiaries
Legacy stored value · unreconciled
4,800 enrolled
Evidence: legacy citation/value not reconciled in M3.
Legacy editorial positives
✓Tourist arrivals recovered to 93% of pre-pandemic levels
✓Working for Tourism programme nearly at full target enrolment
✓New airline route agreements with 4 countries
Legacy editorial concerns
✗Tourism GDP contribution still 0.4% below pre-pandemic share
✗SA Tourism marketing budget disputes delayed campaigns
Legacy budget-spend field
Numeric spend rate not rendered in M3 because the stored percentage has not been reconciled to a direct expenditure record. Legacy source label: National Treasury Vote 38, 2024/25.
Remuneration uses the source-bounded 2025/26 Gazette reference described above. Legacy Odyssey scorecards are editorial and under evidence review; only KPI rows labelled direct primary snapshot were reconciled in M3. Unreconciled budget-spend percentages are not rendered. Independent public-accountability tool — not affiliated with any political party.