DEPUTY President David Mazuba is simply not the right man for the job.
That is how the Democratic and Alliance reacted to the appointment of Mabuza by President Cyril Ramaphosa to head up the inter-ministerial task team to oversee South Africa’s Covid-19 vaccine rollout plan.
The DA said Mabuza was ‘totally’ incapable and unreliable to oversee the vaccine rollout plan of this magnitude.
The party’s spokesperson Siviwe Gwarube said Mabuza has effectively been an absentee Deputy President since the beginning of COVID-19 crisis.
“The fact that the President has made this move proves that South Africa’s Covid vaccine plan is now no longer about saving lives. It is about his political alliances within the ANC. This is evidenced by the fact that the President made this announcement via Zoom during the ANC’s Progressive Business Forum, as opposed to an announcement via the appropriate government channels in his capacity as the
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