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To be a fly on the wall, one could picture a dartboard in the Public Protector’s office with Public Enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan’s picture on it.
By a possible Freudian slip, Cyril Ramaphosa skipped announcing Naledi Pandor as International Relations Minister, but he did name her deputies, Alvin Botes and Candith Mashego-Dlamini.
Given the opposition parties’ negative responses to Ramaphosa’s cabinet announcement, it seems not. They say one should keep their own house in order.
While most senior ministers responsible for managing the economy retained their portfolios, a few newcomers were included in Cyril Ramaphosa’s cabinet.
A leader is only as powerful as those they surround themselves with and President Cyril Ramaphosa has chosen the team he wants to go to war with.
This multi-facetted analysis of the first 100 days of the Zondo Commission concludes that it is doing the job admirably, seemingly at treacle-like speed with those implicated cleverly playing a waiting game, but nevertheless changing the political landscape forever.
There was a time when DA-supporters were almost too scared to look at the latest tweet by former leader and premier, Helen Zille.
The Democratic Alliance’s lacklustre performance in the May elections, which saw it lose support for the first time, has been chewed over by many analysts.
The power of a corruption-busting unit is directly related to its independence and the security of tenure of its leader.
A Gupta-linked middleman company slipped into a Transnet deal and spiked the price of relocating a locomotive-manufacturing venue from Gauteng to Durban from a mere R9.7m to about R700m.