Contrary to a commitment made to reduce the number of ministries, Ramaphosa has expanded his cabinet with two new ministries. Image via Facebook/ Cyril Ramaphosa and The Presidency of the Republic of South Africa
Contrary to a commitment made to reduce the number of ministries, Ramaphosa introduced two ministries during cabinet reshuffle speech.
Contrary to a commitment made to reduce the number of ministries, Ramaphosa has expanded his cabinet with two new ministries. Image via Facebook/ Cyril Ramaphosa and The Presidency of the Republic of South Africa
During his Cabinet changes speech on Monday, 6 March, President Ramaphosa announced the establishment of two new ministries in the presidency.
The Minister of Electricity, led by Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, is the first new ministry.
The second is led by Maropene Ramokgopa, Minister of Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation.
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“In the course of attending to current challenges, we are establishing two new ministries. The first of these is the minister of electricity to deal with the immediate crisis of load shedding. The second is the minister with specific responsibility for planning, monitoring and evaluation to focus greater attention on the performance of government,” said Ramaphosa.
While this will increase the size of his Cabinet, Ramaphosa said that he is in talks with the National Treasury to reduce the size of the national executive next year.
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“While this will result in an increase in the number of ministries in the short term, as indicated in the State of the Nation Address, I have instructed the Presidency and National Treasury to develop a proposal to rationalise government departments, entities and programmes to ensure greater efficiency.
“This work, which will result in the reduction of the number of Ministries, will inform the configuration of government going into the next administration,” he said.
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