Cape Town – EFF leader Julius Malema has urged President Cyril Ramaphosa to reduce the size of his cabinet by eliminating deputy ministers, whom he deems unnecessary and costly.
During a budget debate, Malema criticised the role of deputy ministers and suggested that the funds spent on their offices could be saved.
He also condemned Ramaphosa’s reassignment of Sihle Zikalala from minister to deputy minister to accommodate DA’s Dean Macpherson, calling it humiliating.
“What you [Ramaphosa] did to Sihle Zikala is painful. When you see Sihle sitting down on a chair and that white man of a minister [Dean Macpherson] sitting next to him, Sihle looks like a poor orphan who has just been given a piece job. Instead of just removing Sihle and doing away with that ministry, you humiliated him,” he said.
Malema argued for prioritising critical issues like crime and water shortages within the president’s office, instead of maintaining what he described as “useless” ministries.
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Compiled by Betha Madhomu
