BUSINESS REFLECTION: After the Bell: The Manchester United theory of the Cabinet reshuffle

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BUSINESS REFLECTION: After the Bell: The Manchester United theory of the Cabinet reshuffle
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On Monday night President Cyril Ramaphosa finally announced a Cabinet reshuffle. To me, it was significantly underwhelming. We are Manchester United and two-nil down; we are Jana Novotná at one set all, blithely unaware of what is about to happen next.

As every soccer fan knows, Liverpool inflicted the most extraordinary, humiliating defeat on Manchester United this weekend, putting seven goals past their old rival. The defeat is unprecedented in a whole range of different ways; it was United’s heaviest Premier League defeat and Liverpool’s most decisive defeat of United, topping their 7-1 victory in 1895 when the Red Devils were still known as Newton Heath. And so on., he wasn’t sure at first why Liverpool had decided to play a rugby game.

After the match, Novotná was accused of “choking”, a rather unpleasant characterisation. But according to the psychological theories expounded at the time, it was more complicated than simply a failure of motivation. So, does this perhaps remind you of anything? On Monday night President Cyril Ramaphosa finally announced a Cabinet reshuffle. To me, it was significantly underwhelming. Of course, there was an acknowledgement of the electricity crisis — more than acknowledgement, the positive creation of a new ministry to deal with the crisis — and a whole string of other personnel changes.

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