NEWSWATCH: In the cabinet shuffle that only last week was being fervently denied, Siphiwe Nyanda was perhaps the biggest casualty, reports Business Day, which also reports that new additions to the cabinet give taxpayers an even heavier burden. Meanwhile, the Pretoria High Court stopped the Sunday Independent from publishing information on SAPS appointments in the crime intelligence division.
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Business Day: Zuma axes seven ministers in bid to get service delivery on track... Only last week we were being told there was no shuffle. Then, as we all expected, there was - and Communications Minister Siphiwe Nyanda, who 'had come to 'represent the face of many of the criticisms levelled at the Zuma administration - alleged corruption and maladministration,' got the chop (but will probably be 'redeployed later, we're sure). Now Roy Padayachie has been handed, amongst other tasks... that poisoned chalice - the job of trying to sort out Awkward Park aka, the SABC. Good luck.
Business day: NEWS ANALYSIS: A costly solution to banish political headaches... Zuma is certainly a giving person... he hopes he has got rid of his headache, but has given taxpayers an even bigger one - saddled as we now are with what must be one of the bigger cabinets on the face of the earth.
