If President Jacob Zuma's cabinet reshuffle is so much about the effectiveness of Government as he claims, how and what is it that his new ministers are going to do in the 9 months that is left before the April 2014 General Elections. The reality and truth is that a Government Ministry is not a Spaza Shop which you can simply open today and start making money tomorrow, Ministers have to first get up to speed with what has been hapening in the departments, what agreements and projects have been and are undertaken at the time, Politicians also have this habit of bringing their own trusted soldiers and comrades when assuming ministerial offices therefore it means there's reshuffling of departments that will also take place within that period, so one wonders if 9 months will be sufficient to get any real work done. Based on this, i think to say the new Ministers will bring significant change in those departments is ridiculously impractical.
So then we ask ourselves what other reasons could have influenced the decision to reshuffle, who are the ministers axed and what role have they played or will they play as we are heading towards elections 2014, we must also ask ourselves who are those ministers that may have been left behind in this reshuffle if it is so much about the effectiveness of Government, another factor to consider is the ANCs past elective Conference in Mangaung and what happened there, could it be that a message is being sent to those who opposed President Jacob Zuma's re- election, "Tokyo Sexwale" for example?
What is clear is that some ministers where axed based on their own failures, some based on their relationship or lack thereof with the president, some for potentially being threats in the coming elections and some for merely being in the wrong place at the right time.
Dina Pule to me deserved to be axed, for obvious reasons but one then asks why was Minister Angie Motshega left behind because she equally failed just as Dina Pula did, and worst of all she failed in a crucial portfolio of Education with the Limpopo Books debacle, so why is she still there. This reminds me of how former President Thabo Mbeki ignored the calls to sack the late Minister of Health Manto Shabalala Msimang during his presidency, so this tells us that history somehow has its own way of coming bak to haunt us.
My view is, this reshuffle has got nothing to do with the effectiveness of government, it is more of a political tactic to buy time and put ducks in a row for April 2014.............
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