Bathabile Dlamini remains in her position after Cyril Ramaphosa’s cabinet reshuffle
Dlamini was labelled incompetent over her handling of the Sassa fiasco in 2017, which saw almost R17m in grant funds at risk of not being disbursed
Minister of women in the presidency Bathabile Dlamini, who has been criticised as being “incompetent”, has survived another cabinet reshuffle. Dlamini was labelled incompetent over her handling of the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) fiasco, which saw almost 17 million grant beneficiaries at risk of not receiving their money. Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng, while hearing the Sassa matter in 2017, questioned Dlamini’s ability to do her job when he asked her lawyer: "How do you get to the level where your clients make themselves look like they are incompetent?" South Africans were shocked in February when Ramaphosa reshuffled the cabinet he inherited from Zuma and did not fire Dlamini, who was then social development minister. Instead, he moved her to minister in the presidency responsible for women. This was the same person who, in her capacity as ANC Women’s League president, included men in the delegation to the party’s policy conference, and defended that by saying wome...
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