MAHLATSE MAHLASE: Cabinet reshuffle makes hope for accountability less likely | hlatseentle
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s first Cabinet reshuffle since officially taking office has failed to live up to expectations as he maintained many of the non-performing and inept ministers while praising the discredited. This was an opportunity to address the shameless behaviour of particularly the now disgraced former Minister of Health Zweli Mkhize for allegedly siphoning funds meant for COVID-19, but failed to do so.
In fact the only bold move he made was the charge of state security, cutting out the middle man by disbanding the ministry so the country’s top spies report directly to him. History will tell if it was the right move. If failing to stop the worst violence post-apartheid was not enough to get you fired – then what would?
Perhaps we expected too much. Was the promise of a clean government just too much? Surely describing Mkhize’s leadership as outstanding despite him being implicated in corruption of the worst kind was a step too far. Mkhize has been implicated in a R150 million irregularly awarded tender to his associates with some of that money allegedly ending up in the accounts of family members.
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