Ramaphosa’s Minister of ANC Loadshedding will cost taxpayers at least R37 million per year
10 February 2023
Please find attached a soundbite by Dr Leon Schreiber MP.
During last night’s State of the Nation Address (SONA), President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that he would be adding yet another ministerial portfolio to his already bloated and inefficient Cabinet. He calls the new position the Minister of Electricity – but a more accurate title would be Minister of ANC Loadshedding.
To add insult to injury, Ramaphosa has clearly chosen to abuse the loadshedding crisis to create more cushy jobs for useless cadres. Following the announcement, the DA has used the Ministerial Handbook to calculate the minimum cost to taxpayer that this new ministry will entail, working on the assumption that Ramaphosa will also appoint a Deputy Minister of ANC Loadshedding as this is his preferred method of spreading around patronage.
In addition to the fact that this ministry will only create a new layer of bureaucracy and ignite further turf wars between the Minister of ANC Loadshedding, the Minister of Energy and the Minister of Public Enterprises, it will also add at least R37 million per year to the bill that taxpayers already foot for ANC Ministers and their cadres.