South Africa

DA Criticizes Ramaphosa’s Redeployment of Justice Minister Simelane as “Short-Sighted”….

today4 December, 2024

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To South Africa, where the DA says president Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to remove Thembi Simelane as minister of Justice and Constitutional Development and redeploy her as minister of Human Settlements, is short-sighted and disrespectful to South Africans. There has been mounting pressure for the president to remove her after it emerged she received a loan from a company that benefited from VBS Mutual Bank, while she was Polokwane mayor. The DA’s, Glynnis Breytenbach, says Simelane does not belong in Cabinet:

 

 

 

Written by: Leonard Witbeen