NATIONAL NEWS - General secretary of new trade union South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) Zwelinzima Vavi says President Jacob Zuma’s latest Cabinet reshuffle is aimed at “sewing up the state” and has nothing to do with the interests of the country or its people.
Vavi spoke to Eyewitness News at Parliament, where he attended a briefing by the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) amid union concerns that the R1.8 trillion in assets managed by the PIC, including civil servants’ pension funds, will be used to bail out ailing state-owned entities.
Zuma on Tuesday morning announced he’d fired Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande, while re-positioning ministers he appointed to new portfolios in his last Cabinet reshuffle just seven months ago.
Hlengiwe Mkhize replaces Nzimande, general secretary of the South African Communist Party (SACP), which has been a vocal critic of state capture and Zuma.
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