BRUCE'S LIST
PETER BRUCE: Move along, nothing to see here. Oh, wait ...
Still no cabinet reshuffle ... and here’s a few reasons why
Another quiet weekend. No reshuffle and the president, I believe, is away for much of the week. Still, just because things look quiet doesn’t mean they are. The war between finance minister Pravin Gordhan and Sars commissioner Tom Moyane is out in the open and it’s ugly. The Mail & Guardian got a really good story last week and was able to publish letters between the two, showing Gordhan’s utter contempt for what Moyane has done to the Sars that Gordhan, in his day, put together. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the president’s chosen successor (well, chosen by him and not — yet — the ANC) and his former wife, is campaigning openly now for the job. Jacob Zuma and the ANC leadership make a big thing of people not being allowed to campaign yet, but JZ is desperate to get Dlamini-Zuma in so he turns a blind eye. What’s worse is that she is sounding a lot like him. I though she might try to carve out a profile of her own but the only difference she has made between them so far is the obvious one...
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