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PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa said this week he constantly reviewed his Cabinet, assessing whether the ministers he had appointed were meeting their mandate and serving the communities around South Africa.

He, however, declined to be drawn into whether he would be replacing some of the ministers in the security cluster, following the apparent failure to foresee and manage the recent riots which left hundreds of people dead, and billions of rand lost through looting and vandalism.

“What are you trying to get me to say… that I am going to fire ministers and all that? As I said, the process of people who are deployed to work with any leader even in a Cabinet situation is a process that you evaluate, and it’s best to leave it there,” Ramaphosa said. |

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Digital Vibes

EVEN though President Cyril Ramaphosa has received the report of the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) which probed the Department of Health’s controversial R150 million Covid-19 communications contract awarded to Digital Vibes, he has yet to make a decision on the fate of embattled Health Minister Zweli Mkhize, who is on special leave.

“I’ve received the SIU report but there is still some finalisation of certain aspects which we are going to get. So I am looking at it, and I’m studying it (the SIU report).

“So allow me the time and the space to look at that,” Ramaphosa told journalists this week while touring a vaccination site in Tembisa, Gauteng.

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