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Cabinet reshuffle: Siyabonga Cwele replaces Gigaba as Minister of Home Affairs

Source: The South African, 22/11/2018

Dr. Siyabonga Cwele will step into Malusi Gigaba`s shoes as the new
Minister of Home Affairs as announced during the cabinet reshuffle
Thursday afternoon.
Siyabonga Cwele to takeover post as home affairs minister.
Dr. Siyabonga Cwele served as the Minister of Telecommunications and
Postal Services from 2014. Before that, he was Minister of
Intelligence from 2008 to 2009, and Minister of State Security from
2009 to 2014.
In addition, he is also serving as a Commissioner representing the
South African Government on the UN Broadband Commission of Sustainable
Developing.
Cwele has been been a Member of Parliament since 1994 and holds a
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery in Medical Policy from
the University of KwaZulu Natal, as well as a postgraduate diploma in
child health, and an Master of Philospy in Economics.
Prior to the advent of democracy, Dr Cwele was involved during the
struggle for liberation from the mid-eighties, and today serves a
member of the national and provincial leadership of the ANC. During
the cabinet reshuffle, President Ramaphosa said:
â€œIn making these changes, I remain determined that the cabinet of our
nation should have what I would call an appropriate mix of experience
and capability, as well as gender, as well as a generation mix as
well. And that it should have members who are committed to serve the
people of our country.â€
Cwele will be taking over from Malusi Gigaba, who resigned on 13
November after the public protector recommended that he face
disciplinary process for violating the constitution and ethics codes
by lying under oath.

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