SISULU’S FORTRESS FAILS
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation Minister Lindiwe Sisulu’s attempts to load her department’s advisory body, the National Rapid Response Task Team, with former student activists and political activists has again come back to bite her. In May, Sisulu () came under fire when the DA accused her of utilising her power of appointment to the advisory structure as a means of “staffing herself a political war room at the taxpayers’ expense”. At the time, the appointees being challenged included former Fees Must Fall leader Chumane Maxwele, former Pan Africanist Congress of Azania leader Thami ka Plaatjie and
