President Jacob Zuma has appointed two ministers in The Presidency, but it is unclear whether the jobs they have been given might not require them to act unconstitutionally. Trevor Manual was appointed to head the National Planning Commission while Collins Shabane was appointed to oversee Performance Monitoring and Evaluation as well as Administration in the [...]
Posts under ‘Manto Tshabalala Msimang’
Manto officials unwise (perhaps even stupid)
The Department of Health really knows how to generate bad publicity. Just as the controversy about the Minister alleged alcoholism and liver transplant queue jumping was dying down, its officials takes out a huge advert in daily papers to attack the judgment of the High Court in the case of Tshabalala-Msimang and Another v Makhanya [...]
Manto and Mbeki: how far can criticism go?
Are Ministers and the President entitled to a certain amount of respect and deference because of their important positions in our society or should they expect to be subjected to more searing criticism and questioning than the rest of us?
It seems as if the cabinet thinks that members of the Executive are entitled to special [...]
Manto and doctors must sue or else….
The Sunday Times is now being attacked from all sides for publishing the sensational allegations that Health Minister Manto Tshabalala Msimang was convicted thief and alcoholic and that the real reasons for her liver transplant (alcoholism) was covered up by medical staff. The National Working Committee (NWC) of the ANC (but not Kgalema Montlante!) issued [...]
A thief and a drunk, or just a sad victim of tabloids?
I feel torn about the explosive story in the Sunday Times this morning that Health Minister Manto Tshabalala Msimang is “a drunkard and a thief”. I have to admit (rather shamefully) that on one level it gives me great pleasure to see what was left of the Minister’s reputation destroyed by the newspaper.
Tshabalala Msimang’s management [...]
