Reshuffling the Cabinet would be handled with speed, ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule said on Sunday after a special meeting of the party’s national executive committee (NEC) in Pretoria. President Jacob Zuma reshuffled the Cabinet 11 times during his nine years in office, and there was an outcry from his party after the last one in October because he had not consulted its top officials. Magashule also indicated that the party’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, “strongly emphasised” to the meeting “the need for ANC leaders and members to honour the deployments entrusted to them by the organisation and the need for consequence management where comrades fail to do so”. As part of a host of new permanent appointments to positions in the party’s headquarters, former ANC spokesman Zizi Kodwa will be placed in the office of the president to monitor and evaluate the implementation of the party’s resolutions, the performance of its deployees and to assess progress in service delivery. The res...

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