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The Citizen reports that the ANC’s alliance partners have criticised President Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to appoint a minister of electricity in the presidency without consulting them first.
This followed Ramaphosa’s announcement during his state of the nation address (Sona) last week that he would be appointing the minister to deal with the country’s crippling energy crisis. The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the SA Communist Party (SACP) held a bilateral session on Monday to deliberate on various issues facing the country, with load shedding crisis and Eskom topping the agenda. In their view, the decision by Ramaphosa to appoint the electricity minister went against the commitment to reconfigure the alliance and give all three organisations an equal say in the running of government. “While the idea to appoint a minister of electricity in the Presidency may be well-intentioned, the lack of consultation directly contradicts the spirit of a reconfigured alliance and programmatic unity. Our joint commitment to the reconfiguration of the alliance aims to see the alliance play its role as a strategic political centre of the national democratic revolution, as opposed to tailing what the government decides with no consultation, including imposing policy direction on the movement,” Cosatu and the SACP complained in a joint statement. The alliance partners said Ramaphosa’s announcement undermined the role of the alliance with the ANC and portrayed a picture of presidential unilateralism.
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