ANA reports that Zwelinzima Vavi, leader of the newly established SA Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu), said on Tuesday that President Jacob Zuma’s cabinet reshuffle was not aimed at radical economic transformation.  

It was a means instead for Zuma to steal from the public purse for himself and his friends.  Vavi was a panellist at a seminar to discuss whether the post-apartheid government was unravelling.  He said the current government was failing the masses and that newly appointed Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba did not represent any meaningful transformation.  According to Vavi‚ Pravin Gordhan‚ the former finance minister, was removed "so we could have nuclear” and to “waste the money of taxpayers” to save the SABC and capture South African Airways‚ Petro SA and Eskom “to benefit the Guptas (an influential business family with personal links to Zuma)".  He also likened the Guptas to a "typical hyena family".

• Read this report in full at eNCA
• See too, Zuma’s radical economic transformation rhetoric is a lie, Vavi says, at BusinessLive
• And also, Zuma reshuffled his cabinet to steal from public, claims Vavi, at IOL News
• As well as, SA's political crisis is playing out in economy, says Vavi, at SABC News

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