The Covid-19 cloud over the health ministry, the recent handling of the violence in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng and celebrities now volunteering to serve in Cyril Ramaphosa’s new Cabinet must be sending a strong message to the President that the time for change is now. For his predecessor, the jailed former president Jacob Zuma, it was never a problem. In his nine-year tenure, he changed his Cabinet 11 times, the most infamous of his irrational moves in 2017 when he reshuffled Pravin Gordhan out of his Finance Minister post and placed the country on a path to ruin.
Ramaphosa is more reasoned, but with so many pressures building a reshuffle is inevitable. Daily Maverick reports perhaps the final impetus for a reshuffle may come from the Special Investigating Unit’s report into Health Minister Zweli Mkhize. The court papers filed by the SIU have revealed exactly how Mkhize and his family allegedly benefited from the Digital Vibes scandal. And what does Mkize do? Blame his messenger.
Meanwhile, opposition leaders calling for a reshuffle have suggested Ramaphosa look beyond the ANC when he replaces his executive.
Who would’ve thought there’d be a time that we’d beg for a Cabinet reshuffle after the Zuma fatigue? Times are certainly changing, hopefully for the better!
Here’s a roundup of the world’s top and most interesting headlines:
SA Business
SA becomes the first country in the world to award a patent to an AI-generated invention – Business Insider
How much money government makes from traffic fines – BusinessTech
Crash and burn: Motor industry takes R3bn dent as car exports slump 33% after riots and Transnet cyberattack – Daily Maverick
Global Business
SpaceX takes big step toward Super Heavy’s first orbital flight – Digital Trends
Uber rival Bolt lifts valuation to more than R68 billion in delivery push – Fin24
Another shipping crisis strikes, threatening delays to Black Friday shopping – CNBC
Markets
What to watch in commodities: BP, Glencore, Food, Lithium, LNG – Bloomberg
Gold down, investors gauge Fed’s next move ahead of US jobs data – Investing.com
Soaring aluminum drives up cost of everything from beer to foil – Bloomberg
Opinion
Beating the counter-revolutionaries: South Africa’s people are the ultimate defenders of democracy – Daily Maverick
OPINION | Tebogo Khaas: Mkhize scandal – The moral dyslexia facing the ANC and Ramaphosa – News24
Cathy Buckle: Zimbabwe crippled by dual pandemics of covid and corruption – Biznews
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