What with global warming and the rest of it, the elements have not been kind to Senzeni Zokwana since he assumed the mantle as the minister of agriculture, fisheries and forestry. This year, it was a particularly vicious strain of bird flu that gave his opposition a...
Minister of Telecommunications and Postal Services Siyabonga Cwele has often been criticised for behaving more like an absentee landlord than the head of a government department. But this year he has stepped up to provide strong stewardship, albeit for very unpopular...
It’s not often the department of women makes headlines but 2017 was a bumper year for Susan Shabangu’s office — for better or worse. In April, Karabo Mokoena became one of the hundreds of women in South Africa who die at the hands of their partners each year. Her...
Tokozile Xasa came into a department with a good administrative history and once again the results are favourable. Of the R1.02-billion allocated to it, 99.4% was spent. More than R700-million went to the development of sport in a bid to build an “active nation”. The...
There is a noose around Thulas Nxesi’s neck and that is Nkandla. Although he wasn’t minister of public works when the money was allocated for the ill-considered “upgrades”, it was Nxesi who was complicit in the cover-up, including marking his own task team report top...
