The answer to South Africa’s challenges is definitely not to expand the cabinet or move around ineffective ministers. It really does not matter who is appointed or moved, as long as they still try to implement the ANC’s lacking policies.
The entire policy needs to be changed to see an improvement since it has achieved no progress for South Africans in the past thirty years.
As expected, Dr Kgosientso Ramakgopa was appointed as the new Minister of Electricity.
However, TLU SA is under no illusion that the new minister will make any improvement to the government’s implementation ability.
Eskom’s poor performance can largely be attributed to the government’s interference and the results of its cadre deployment policy. Instead, greater distance from the government would achieve success there – privatisation would have been the better course.
Eskom is not the only crisis – all the rest of the semi-state institutions are on the same page as Eskom, which has already had two ministers and still struggles over who the responsible person is.
Will additional ministers be announced in due course for all the other failures, too?
The Minister of Police, Bheki Cele, remains firmly in his post, despite his long list of failures and a murder rate of 84 people per day under his misguidance.
This cabinet reshuffle confirms that the well-being of South Africans is not a priority for the government.
It was merely an attempt to strengthen factions and thus score points for the upcoming election. More than ever, loyalty takes priority over competence for the ANC.
BENNIE VAN ZYL
General Manager of TLU SA
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