KHAYA SITHOLE: Ministers can’t do their jobs if interference is the norm
Remarkably, Ramaphosa evidently failed to pose the Gupta question to Nene, and Nene failed to mention it
SA has found itself trying to deal with a change in the leadership in the finance ministry yet again this week. Nhlanhla Nene’s testimony at the Zondo commission of inquiry, in which he admitted to multiple visits to the Gupta compound, created a new crisis for the Ramaphosa administration. Having risen to power on a commitment to weed out corruption and lead a process of renewal within the ANC, Nene’s confession and public apology was a political disaster that required Ramaphosa to shuffle his house of cards far sooner than he would have liked. While the make-up of the cabinet has been subject to debate since February, with its motley crew of the compromised and the ineffective, Ramaphosa had at least managed to put his preferred candidates into the critical ministries. By bringing Nene back from the political exile he had been banished to by Jacob Zuma, Ramaphosa had found a way to balance his political pressures and placate multiple stakeholders with the more pervasive need to bu...
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