HUMAN Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale and embattled Communications Minister Dina Pule received the boot on Tuesday as President Jacob Zuma reshuffled his Cabinet for the fourth time in his first five-year term, set to conclude next April.
Dispensing with the dead weight in his Cabinet has become a hallmark of the Zuma presidency, despite his detractors criticising him for being soft on slackers.
Speaking in Pretoria, Mr Zuma made the following appointments:
• Minister of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs: Lechesa Tsenoli, former deputy minister for rural development and land reform, to replace Richard Baloyi.
• Minister of Human Settlements: Connie September, African National Congress (ANC) MP, to replace Mr Sexwale.
• Minister of Communications: Yunus Carrim, former deputy minister of co-operative governance and traditional affairs, to replace Ms Pule.
• Minister of Energy: Ben Martins, former minister of transport, to replace Dipuo Peters.
• Minister of Transport: Ms Peters to replace Mr Martins.
• Deputy Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development: John Jeffery, ANC MP, to replace Andries Nel.
• Deputy Minister of Science and Technology: Michael Masuta, to fill vacancy.
• Deputy Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform: Pamela Tshwete, ANC MP, to replace Mr Tsenoli.
• Deputy Minister of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs: Mr Nel, to replace Mr Carrim.
Mr Zuma’s first Cabinet reshuffle was in October 2010, just more than a year after taking office, his second in October 2011 and his third in June last year. Tuesday's overhaul marks his fourth, about 10 months before South Africa's fifth democratic general election.
Mr Sexwale had backed former ANC deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe in the party's elective race in Mangaung last year.
Ms Pule has long had a cloud of allegations and corruption hanging over her — including that her boyfriend received access to funds raised for an Information and Communication Indaba. He allegedly used the money to buy her Christian Louboutin shoes.
- BDlive
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