President Ramaphosa is using party committees to consolidate his grip ahead of national elections next year, South Africans, still buckling under the strain of crippling daily power cuts with no end in sight, are waiting for the appointment of a Minister of Electricity, announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa at the State of the Nation address this month, to deal with the crisis.
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Eyewitness News understands that David Makhura, Mduduzi Manana, and Mdumiseni Ntuli, who lost out on the race to become the secretary-general of the governing party last year, were deployed to help firm up Luthuli House.