President Cyril Ramaphosa is now done with reshuffling his Cabinet. Instead of reducing the size of it to be lean and mean for agility, he increased it. Part of the changes was the creation of a new Cabinet post – minister of electricity – to focus on ending load shedding and prevent a meltdown of the economy due to electricity shortages.
Ramaphosa appointed Dr Kgoisentsho “Sputla” Ramokgopa as the minister of electricity in the Presidency. In a way, the president has taken over the role of electricity delivery in South Africa, leaving the Department of Energy to review its own
