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Business Insider SA reports that President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Wednesday that unemployment was such a critical issue that he was renaming the Department of Labour as the Department of Employment and Labour.
In name at least, jobs will now be the first priority for the new minister, Thulas Nxesi. The deputy minister is Boitumelo Moloi. Nxesi replaces Mildred Oliphant, who survived every Zuma cabinet reshuffle since 2010 while avoiding being linked to any of his administrations worst scandals. It was Oliphant who oversaw the introduction of a national minimum wage as she incrementally improved conditions through legislation and regulation around everything from maternity leave to the employment of domestic workers. Nxesi, by contrast, commissioned a government report that cleared Zuma of wrongdoing on Nkandla, then declared that the report contained details too sensitive to allow it to be made public (which it did not), but made sure its findings were released in such a fashion as to counter early contrary findings by then public protector Thuli Madonsela.
- Read the full original of Phillip de Wet’s report in the above regard at Business Insider
- Read too, Introducing the executives Cyril Ramaphosa has chosen to serve SA, at BusinessLive
- And also, Unionists, women and an alleged smuggler? Who's who in Ramaphosa's Cabinet, at M&G
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