Ramaphosa’s show of strength ahead of the 2024 general election

What is one to make about President Cyril Ramaphosa’s much anticipated cabinet reshuffle — one that was supposed to be his show of strength ahead of the 2024 general election — where the governing ANC faces a very real prospect of a coalition future.

Well here’s one thing that can make us all feel the concerns and interests of an increasingly depressed nation are being taken seriously, Nkosasana Dlamini Zuma a 30 year cabinet veteran is now the minister in the presidency responsible for women, youth and persons with disabilities. 

Clearly the political considerations of an unpopular president took primacy over the fate of the largest segment of South Africa’s population, who carry the weight of the highest unemployment rates in the industrialised world and gender based violence. And that’s the story of this reshuffle, isn’t it. 

As Ramaphosa said it was not an overhaul that a country facing an economic crisis as a result of crumbling infrastructure and collapsing confidence levels has been calling out for since he won re-election as ANC president in December. It was about filling vacancies, crossing the t’s and dotting the