PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa is seriously considering a major shakeup of the national executive amid pressure from within and outside the governing ANC to fire security cluster ministers for mishandling the recent violent protests.
Ramaphosa, who has the sole prerogative to hire and fire Cabinet ministers, is under severe pressure from opposition parties and civil society to fire incompetent ministers and those implicated in wide corruption as soon as possible.
The president is expected to announce his decision within the next few days and is keeping the country guessing whether he would carry out his threat to clean up government and fight corruption.
While Ramaphosa prefers to play his cards to close to his chest, he has no choice this time around but to act decisively following the ‘catastrophic’ mishandling of the recent pro-Zuma riots by the Security and Economic Cluster Ministers.
Political analysts believe that Ramaphosa is
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