TOBY SHAPSHAK: Ramaphosa under pressure over his ministers’ smallanyana skeletons
Can we expect parliament to act in the best interests of SA’s citizens and against the compromised ministers rather than putting the interests of the ANC deployees first?
If the two greatest crises facing SA right now are Covid and Eskom, it’s particularly damaging that both ministers in charge of these issues are seeing their “smallanyana skeletons” come out in public. The question is: will President Cyril Ramaphosa ever call them to account?
First, as the country ramps up towards its third wave of Covid infections, health minister Zweli Mkhize is bogged down in allegations — and journalists are required to call such things “allegations” until they are proven in court, but the public knows what’s what — that a company called Digital Vibes, set up by his former PA and friend, scored a R150m contract from the health ministry. It wasn’t just “irregular”; much of the spending was “fruitless and wasteful” too: consider how ludicrous it was that Digital Vibes charged the state R3.6m to “set up” an interview at the SABC for Mkhize...
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