The Gauteng Treasury on Saturday denied reports that taxpayers will have to pay R7.5 million in the next three years to maintain the official residence of Premier Nomvula Mokonyane.

"It is incorrect that the province will spend the reported amount on the official residence," Gauteng Treasury said in a statement.

"What the Gauteng legislature will appropriate for 2013/14 financial year is R120,000."

Earlier this week Mokonyane's spokesman Thebe Mohatle told Beeld newspaper that the Gauteng government had spent about R25 million, including the purchase price, on the house since it was bought in 2004.

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