President Cyril Ramaphosa used a calculated restructuring strategy, rather than outright ditching, to frame the inter-related moves that characterised his Cabinet reshuffle of 5 August 2021. This subtle framing notwithstanding, it was a Cabinet reconfig...
Susan Booysen is visiting and emeritus professor, University of the Witwatersrand. Her latest book, Precarious Power: Compliance and discontent under Ramaphosa’s ANC, explores the question of how the ANC, discredited and disgraced in so many respects, sustains its popular following and electoral support. It is published by Wits University Press, priced at R350, and is available for sale and to order from bookshops and online retailers.
As the ANC’s head of economic transformation and former deputy minister of economic development , Godongwana comes with some essential skills. It may be hoped that his appointment will bring greater immediacy and urgency to ANC government actions to sort out finances and bring in economic growth and job creation.
Ramaphosa will also be strengthening his security oversight through the appointment of former Cabinet member Sydney Mufamadi as national security adviser. Mufamadi had led the process that produced the 2018 Report of the High-Level Review Panel on the State Security Agency. Mufamadi will fill the opening left by Charles Nqakula, who had already stepped down earlier this year.
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