Cabinet doesn't need struggle cadres, says political analyst
Political analyst Goodenough Mashego says President Cyril Ramaphosa needs to appoint competent, experienced ministers to his cabinet.
President Ramaphosa is set to announce his new cabinet on Monday evening.
Pressure has been mounting on the president to fill vacancies in his executive, appoint a new deputy president and reveal the name of the new electricity minister.
This comes amid intense speculation on who will be included or excluded, as well as the impact the president's recent ill-health could have had on the timing of the announcement.
Mashego says the president cannot appoint people based on political considerations.
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"We expect people who don't have struggle credentials as from like far away outside like Lusaka. We expect the president to give us people who we all know, people who a lot has been written about them. We don’t expect people who come from exile to still make part of this cabinet.
“But now the president in reshuffling has to balance the factions within the party, there is a faction that is populated largely by people with treason credentials and struggle credentials."
Mashego says he doesn’t expect the president to trim the size of his cabinet.
"We should expect different energy because I am seeing a couple of new ministers, some being promoted from deputy ministers to ministers, so that there can be a better looking cabinet but the damp will be when we see people like Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, who was in Nelson Mandela's cabinet, coming back into cabinet because that will mean that there is not much of reshuffling but moving around of items in the cabinet."
