President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to announce a Minister of Electricity and a reshuffled Cabinet \u201cin a matter of days\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
This is according to Presidential spokesperson Vincent Magwenya, who was addressing media on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are vacancies in Cabinet. We also now have a vacancy in the role of a Deputy President and so there is a sense of urgency that the President fills those vacancies as soon as possible. In a matter of days, that announcement will be made.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThe President has to apply his mind. The appointment of Cabinet members and the management of Cabinet is not something that you can conduct in haste. It\u2019s something that has to be carefully considered because you have to look at the stability of government, you have to look at the programmes that are already underway.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are many layers of complexity and sensitivity that have to be looked at,\u201d Magwenya said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Answering questions on former Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter\u2019s allegations that senior government officials and at least two Cabinet Ministers are allegedly involved in corruption at the power utility, Magwenya said: \u201cWhat [De Ruyter] has said is nothing new to the extent that we know that there is corruption at Eskom.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cMore importantly, government has responded to that level of criminality that exists within Eskom through a multi-disciplinary task team that has been deployed to Eskom through the NatJOINTS. That includes all the law enforcement agencies, including State Security\u2026 and they are dealing with every aspect of wrongdoing going on at Eskom,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Magwenya said President Ramaphosa does not have the names of those Cabinet Ministers allegedly involved in wrongdoing at the State power utility and therefore cannot factor that into his impending Cabinet reshuffle decision.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat the President has said is that Mr De Ruyter should approach law enforcement agencies with all the evidence and all the information that he has. He has a duty to do so and he had a duty to provide that information to law enforcement agencies as the CEO of Eskom.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThe President has also been on record to say that we now have law enforcement agencies that have been empowered to operate without any fear or favour. We know we come from an era where some of these law enforcement agencies were ameliorated of skills, were disempowered in so many ways. That has changed\u2026 They now investigate without any fear or favour.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cSo anybody who has any information that can assist in curbing the levels of corruption at Eskom is urged to take that information to law enforcement agencies so that it can be fully investigated,\u201d Magwenya said. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Source: South African Government News Agency<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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