Ramaphosa axes Simelane as justice minister — but keeps her in the Cabinet

ANC supporters are aghast, her positions should be terminated immediately. This is a "weak response" and needs a firmer response, she should held accountable to Parliament.

OMG! This is like getting a flat wheel on a car and then applying the solution of swapping it with a wheel from the other side. The citizens of this country seriously need to wake up. Cyril Ramaphosa just showed the country that he is no better than Jacob Zuma, in fact he is cut from the same cloth.

The ANC clearly has no intention of stopping the theft, instead, continue to condone it and protect the guilty. Tax payers money will STILL be used to pay this morally devoid person. The ONLY acceptable action is for her to be REMOVED from government, investigated and for justice to be served.

"..untenable conflict of interest of having a minister of justice accused of corruption" - Err, moving her to human settlements now suddenly makes her less corrupt? It is an untenable conflict of interest to have ANY minister accused of corruption!! The depth of this stupidity knows no limits.

DM giving credit to CR? Why call it axing? The term "Axes" creates the impression CR is holding her accountable. But we cant say that when she is just given another portfolio

The wheels on the bus go......

And so the taxpayer is paying foran even bigeger bloated cabinet

Why can this man not make a single (1... ONE!!!!) decision that shows he has a spine? Just one! How did he even make it in business! Oh, wait... now I remember.

The revolving cadre corruption door.

2026 is around the corner. Voters will have to show their balls and get rid of the scum as Cyril clearly doesn’t have the balls to do so. Another election bloodbath loading for the corrupt ANC!

Poor reflection of what is happening at the highest echelons of our government. Moving her to a different position in cabinet is worse. It shows lack of insight, foresight, lack of accountability and integrity. However we must be mindful that these are allegations, not yet proven in court.

Probably the weakest, most pathetic “decision” this spineless moron has ever made and there is some stiff competition.

It's the ANC way to protect their cadre thieves. There really is no other way to see this. And DM actually nominated CR as person of the year.

So cyril has admitted that she is too corrupt for Justice, but just corrupt enough for Human Settlements. This absolute final proof that corruption is tolerated in the disgusting anc.

Cyrils amazing back bone for all to see, not axed and put to pasture pending an orange suite but moved to another portfolio. Human settlements some of the poorest of the poor, and she walses around Europe with a 30,000 rand backpack. We're did the money come from..????

CRIMINALS will always protect their fellow CRIMINALS. I've always wondered how much Cyril benefitted from VBS????

S&P and Fitch raised SA credit rating from stable to positive within 3 months of each other. Moody's+ Fitch+S&P just bumped Eskom up to positive. These are qualitative assessments of the country's prospects. Things are getting better. Will the cadres get the credit? Where is the good news?

Doesn’t sum up what Ramaphosa thinks about the department of human settlement, it sums up what he thinks about blatant corruption and whether it should mean if you get caught you will be punished - apparently not. You get sent in a ‘ paid holiday’ until everyone forgets you are a criminal.

The pigs shuffle around the trough

Not an unexpected response, from the most indecisive "president" imaginable. Like a marionette his responses come after the squabble between the 3 year olds to pull on the strings has been completed.

South Africa currently lacks a strong and charismatic leader at the helm. Instead, it seems we're settling for mediocrity, which leaves much to be desired in terms of bold governance and inspiring vision.

I am worried that any improvements made by having the DA in the GNU will simply be passed off by the ANC as themselves being responsible for those improvements. ANC has time again shown it is incompetent, and CR is corrupt as all of them. Maybe the DA should pull out of the GNU.

Ramaspineless must be reeeeeally scared of her to keep giving her taxpayer funds to keep shut up.

It’s much more complex. ANC corrupt faction would love DA to withdraw. ANC centre would no longer hold. Zim is run by 1000 corrupt elites who use the electorate only as voting fodder every 4 years. MK + ANC/MK sleepers (50%) would love to be in that position. DA helping to keep things honest.

Oh! My! God! He has no shame, but what is worse is the middle finger shown to the entire world. Does he think stupidity is endemic? And this is the man who is head of the G20. It's beyond comprehension.

Very sad that her sister, Nokuthula, died fighting for justice and liberation. Thembi is a disgrace to her family and the liberation movement. "The TRC heard that Nokuthula, was kidnapped while on a mission in Johannesburg in 1983; she was never seen alive again; her fate remains a mystery".

Great. Mmamoloko Kubayi illegally fired a staff member because she (Kubayi) got stuck in a lift and her husband got a dodgy R11m tender. Just who you want heading the justice department.

Apparently having a crook heading Human Settlements looks fine to Ramaphosa.

That is the ANC way, don't fire someone cause they're not doing their job or potentially corrupt, just move them into another position.

The Fox has been placed to guard the chicken coop. Mr President you know what to do ! Fire Her in the name of everything sanctified. The shenanigans will NEVER stop . More housing tenders going to be tainted .

I believe its the first of many to come with the current over-bloated cabinet in olace.

Always with the half measures.

Did CR reshuffle Simelane as a means of the acting upon the report she submitted to him after the first VBS corruption-links allegations were made against her or did he reshuffle her for the purported reasons outlined in the press statement yesterday?

So zero sanction then? Same salary, same perks, same access to diverting public funds. I do not however feel bad for the 67% of the public that voted for some or other variant of the ANC or did not vote at all. Wholescale theft of everything not nailed down was clearly the choice they made.

some things never change. same old same old. shame on you ramaposeur

A decision almost as bad as Zuma's sacking the then minister of Finance and appointing Des van Rooyen - the week-end wonder. And that was apparently reversed with some pressure from Ramaphosa and others. But now he plays from exactly the same hymn book. Mandela was a statesman -no one else left.

Ramaphosa didn't axe her - he spinelessly shuffled her sideways. Pathetic.