BRUCE'S LIST: Cabinet reshuffle? Maybe not tonight, Josephine
The changes we dreaded may not be made immediately, or at all
SA’s fevered politics takes no prisoners. There isn’t anything we won’t believe and there’s nothing that surprises us. For the past couple of days there’s been fierce speculation about a cabinet reshuffle. There were two reasons. First, the Sunday Times reported that former Eskom and Transnet and Public Investment Corp CEO Brian Molefe was to be made a member of parliament. Second, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma was due to finish her stint as African Union (AU) Commission chair at the end of January and come home to SA (where she has spent most of the AU time anyway) and that place would also be made for her in her former husband’s cabinet. It all sounds so plausible and real because, well, Jacob Zuma is desperate. But hang on. First, it appears that Dlamini-Zuma won’t be home (or, rather, won’t necessarily be available) for a cabinet job for the next three months. That’s because she is obliged to do a three-month hand-over to her successor. Second, it may well be possible that Molefe may n...
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