Gordhan-Mkokeli fallout a lesson
AS PREDICTED by Mark Gevisser in Thabo Mbeki: the Dream Deferred, a biography of former South African president Thabo Mbeki, Cyril Ramaphosa’s presidential campaign had been “aggressively promoted through a fawning media [sic]”. According to shared WhatsApp screenshots, Tasneem Carrim, a chief director at the Government Communication Information System (GCIS) who is responsible for policy and media analysis and research, created a Whatsapp media group named Thuma Mina (‘Send Me’) on October 31, 2017, just over two months before the 54th ANC National Conference, where Ramaphosa defeated Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma for an ANC presidency.
Carrim has served in the Presidency under Nelson Mandela as communication researcher. During Mbeki’s first term, she served
