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    Home»News»Malusi Gigaba loses fight to keep his job

    Malusi Gigaba loses fight to keep his job

    News By Agency Staff13 November 2018
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    Malusi Gigaba (image c/o GCIS)

    Home affairs minister Malusi Gigaba has succumbed to pressure to quit after a court found he’d lied under oath and a compromising video of him was circulated on social media.

    Gigaba’s exit on Tuesday bolsters President Cyril Ramaphosa’s assertion that he’s committed to clamping down on graft and reversing the mismanagement that characterised his predecessor Jacob Zuma’s almost nine-year rule. Gigaba served as Zuma’s public enterprises minister and finance minister, and a group of leading academics alleged that he helped facilitate the looting of state funds by businessmen allied to the former president.

    The resignation marks a swift fall from grace for one of the rising stars of South African politics, taking him from a top cabinet post less than a year ago to being branded a liar and apologising for a leaked sex tape. It removes from government another of Zuma’s favourites and allows Ramaphosa to name his own minister to a key position as the ANC seeks to bolster its reputation before elections next year.

    At the end of the day he resigned out of his own accord. The president comes out with his hands clean

    “This is extremely good news,” said Sethulego Matebesi, a political analyst at the University of the Free State. “You do not antagonise people who win you the elections. At the end of the day he resigned out of his own accord. The president comes out with his hands clean.”

    In February, the high court found that Gigaba committed perjury when he denied authorising a company owned by the billionaire Oppenheimer family to operate a private immigration terminal at Johannesburg’s main airport. Two higher courts upheld the ruling, and last month anti-graft ombudsman Busisiwe Mkhwebane instructed Ramaphosa to take disciplinary action against Gigaba.

    ‘Hacked’

    Gigaba, a 47-year-old former head of the ANC’s youth wing, denies any wrongdoing. He did, however, apologise for the video that he says was hacked from his phone and was only meant for his and his wife’s viewing.

    Ramaphosa won control of the ANC in December and took office two months later after the party forced Zuma to quit. Ramaphosa initially retained Gigaba and several other Zuma appointees in the cabinet in a bid to help heal divisions within the ANC caused by the leadership race.

    “The president has accepted the minister’s resignation,” Ramaphosa’s office said in a statement. Gigaba took the decision “to relieve the president from undue pressure”, it said.  — Reported by Mike Cohen, (c) 2018 Bloomberg LP

    Cyril Ramaphosa Jacob Zuma Malusi Gigaba
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