President Cyril Ramaphosa’s newly appointed ministers have been sworn in after the reconfiguration of his cabinet on Thursday night.
Newly appointed finance minister Enoch Godongwana, minister in the presidency Mondli Gungubele and health minister Dr Joe Phaahla took an oath promising to serve South Africans honestly and with integrity.
Where the State Security Agency is concerned, Ramaphosa went a step further than a ministerial change, scrapping the ministry altogether and placing its political oversight within the presidency under deputy minister Zizi Kodwa. The president’s hand was seemingly forced into the cabinet changes after ministers in the security cluster publicly pointed fingers at each other over the failed insurrection that led to the deaths of more than 300 people and damaged infrastructure worth billions of rand in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng.
Ramaphosa sacked minister Mapisa-Nqakula from the defence portfolio, saying she would be deployed to a new position which has not been announced. She has been replaced by National Assembly speaker Thandi Modise.
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