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IFP Member of Parliament (MP) Mkhuleko Hlengwa has urged President Cyril Ramaphosa to fire incompetent ministers and asked him to look at reducing his Cabinet rather than adding a Minister of Electricity to an already bloated Cabinet.
Hlengwa was speaking during the second day of the State of the Nation Address (SONA) debate by various political parties in Parliament.
“Mr President if I had 47 minutes, I would urge you not to appoint the Minister of Electricity because you are duplicating political bureaucracy in an already bloated and excessive Cabinet where you have got the Minister of Minerals and Energy, who deals with policy, the Minister of Public Enterprises continues to be the shareholder,” said Hlengwa.
“At the same time you have declared the state of disaster in which the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs comes in to deal with those matters. On top of
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