The changing of the car to a low gear to enable its wheels to gain traction is not in and of itself a bad move. The real question is whether the road beyond this point is smooth enough to enable the car to accelerate and avoid getting caught in the mud ...
Thozamile Botha is outgoing Chairperson of the Ministerial Advisory Panel on Human Settlements. He is a member of the Stalwarts and Veterans Group of the ANC, and is awaiting his final results of his PhD in Sociology at the University of Johannesburg.
The pro-state cancer procedure may have been successful but the results may be devastating. To the membership and the nation, the feeling that a procedure has been carried out has a calming effect, while the cancer cells continue to destroy the other body parts and, ultimately, the entire body. There are two possible reasons the president might have decided to take this approach.
The power base of the president is not Cabinet, it is the ANC National Executive and the branches. Given that the ANC branches are often referred to as branches of members, members get bought by those who stand to gain by either getting directly elected or having their sponsors elected. The inability of the president to consolidate his power base at this level suggests that he remains vulnerable.
Furthermore, the SIU told the portfolio committee that it had investigated the Department of Water and Sanitation on allegations to do with the purchasing of unnecessary SAP licences for more than R500-million, and receiving a payment of R35-million in kickbacks. Proclamation No R54 of 2012 dealt with various allegations at the Department of Water and Sanitation. The SIU had conducted investigations into about 34 allegations.
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