OPINION: The reshuffle does not signal that Ramaphosa has decided to take firm control of his government as he heads for the last two years of his tenure, writes Cyril Madlala.
In 2018, Ramaphosa appointed Mufamadi to chair a panel to review the State Security Agency. It found that there had been “political mal-purposing and factionalisation” of the spooks for more than a decade and that had resulted in a disregard for the Constitution, policy, legislation and other prescripts.
In the reconfigured executive, Zizi Kodwa has been appointed as deputy minister in the Presidency responsible for state security, in a move that facilitates Ramaphosa’s firmer grip on the intelligence services. It would have been expected that last week’s reshuffle would give South Africa a clearer sense yet of what Ramaphosa thinks about the performance of the team he has assembled.
Ordinarily, purely on the basis of ability to perform extraordinarily well, Mboweni and Mkhize would have been the last persons to be fired. The personal circumstances of their exits have dictated otherwise.
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