Buffalo City Metro deputy mayor hopeful Kayise Tom was sworn in as a councillor on Tuesday and indicated she was ready to serve should the party pick her. It appears Tom, the ANC’s Dr WB Rubusana deputy regional chair, is a step closer to landing the job because the region has submitted her name as a preferred candidate to the provincial leadership.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has reconstituted his Presidency with a new minister in the Presidency and two new deputies, a new electricity minister in the Presidency and the return to a full minister in the Presidency for performance monitoring and evaluation.
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A date has now been confirmed officially for the Cabinet reshuffle, with the presidency saying previous anticipated dates circulating via news and social media platforms has been pure speculation and had not been set by president Cyril Ramaphosa.
The ANC in the province has revealed that its former MP Mike Basopu was not lost to politics after it instructed him to resign from parliament to make space for finance minister Enoch Godongwana. The move was to pave the way for President Cyril Ramaphosa to execute his much-anticipated cabinet reshuffle.