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JUSTICE MALALA: A rum affair
Zuma has saddled SA with some lame duck ministers. But at least our restaurant scene is untouched by cabinet’s incompetence
You have to wonder where President Jacob Zuma finds his cabinet members. Where exactly did he find mineral resources minister Mosebenzi Zwane, for example? The man is such a cliché of cronyism. When he arrived at the ministry, apart from travelling with the notorious Gupta family to Switzerland and Dubai, he hired a finance chief for his department straight from his hometown. Last week we heard he had hired a director-general who knows nothing about mining and hasn’t covered himself in glory in his previous jobs — and this one straight from his Free State backyard too! It’s pure Bantustan stuff.Last Sunday I hauled myself out of my comfortable bed at the ungodly hour of 9am, hangover and all, to listen to another of Zuma’s great appointees, social development minister Bathabile Dlamini. She was supposed to tell the nation how exactly she aims to ensure that 17m social grants will be paid at the beginning of April. You may remember Dlamini, of course. Earlier this year her spokesman ...
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