Analysis | Ramaphosa shakes his Cabinet, but shuffles dead wood instead of wielding the axe
Mkhize had long resisted calls to resign, but quit after a meeting with Ramaphosa on Thursday afternoon.
His replacement, Enoch Godongwana, brings to the position a pair of safe hands and he will most likely stick to the prevailing government macroeconomic policies.Godongwana has been chairperson of the party’s radical economic transformation subcommittee, which guides the party policies on the economy and related issues.
“I am therefore making changes to the national executive to improve the capacity of government to effectively undertake these tasks,” Ramaphosa said the televised reshuffle. “At the beginning of this administration, we had brought these two portfolios together on the understanding that the provision of water is closely tied to the development of human settlements.
He also scrapped the department of state security and placed the portfolio under his office to “ensure that the country’s domestic and foreign intelligence services more effectively enable the president to exercise his responsibility to safeguard the security and integrity of the nation”. Earlier on Thursday, Mkhize jumped before he was pushed. Given that a rigorous consultation process within the governing ANC and with the alliance partners in Cosatu and the SA Communist Party preceded every Cabinet shake-up, Mkhize would have caught wind of his impending exit before his resignation letter hit the public space.
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