New Minister

[Mze]

Dr Manto Shabalala-Msimang.

I suppose it could be worse, but it certainly appears that this portfolio is of little importance to the ANC.

 

[Nokkie]

Dr Manto Shabalala-Msimang.

I suppose it could be worse, but it certainly appears that this portfolio is of little importance to the ANC.

Another name I won't bother to remember'

They change the minister cabinets so frequantly each year in South-Africa I just gave up on the whole "sake for interest thing."

 

[semiautomatix]

Link? You've spelt her surname wrong. She's just the acting minister, as far as I know. She is already the Minister of the Presidency, so she can hold both permanently.

Its of little importance. A new cabinet has to be formed on 28 April, anyway.

 

[Gatecrasher]

Get with the program. There will be a new MoC after the elections. That's who we need to be discussing. No point sweating over a temporary, for-a-fortnight, acting-as, has-been stand-in.

 

[ic]

Get with the program. There will be a new MoC after the elections. That's who we need to be discussing. No point sweating over a temporary, for-a-fortnight, acting-as, has-been stand-in.

While I agree, and while it is hard to imagine anyone worse than Manto and Poison Ivy as MoC [except maybe Julius Mampoera], Manto has been the pretend MoC reportedly for a lot more than a fortnight now, which means that the ANC regime and Manto have been getting quite comfortable with the idea of Manto as the next MoC.

How is it that Manto managed to squeal her way into a ministerial position in the office of the temporary presidency, and what guarantees are there that the next president will not find her as attractive as the temporary president appears to find her - even with the stinky garlic breath and stolen liver...who knows, maybe Zuma will keep Manto around as a backup plan to his shower cure for AIDS.