EDITORIAL: A slimmed down state is firmly on the table
The Treasury’s long list showing the extent of duplication and wastage is a rebuke to Ramaphosa
19 September 2023 - 05:00
In his very first state of the nation address in early 2018, President Cyril Ramaphosa promised to slim down the cabinet and make government more efficient.
Five years later, in March, he added two new ministers to his cabinet, increasing the number of ministries to 30. This makes SA’s cabinet one of the world’s largest. Some of the world’s biggest economies, the US and Germany among them, have cabinets hardly half the size of ours. And that’s not even counting SA’s 36 deputy ministers. ..
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