ActionSA introduces bill that would see removal of all deputy ministers

CAPE TOWN - ActionSA has introduced the Constitution Twenty-Second Amendment Bill, which, if passed, will see the removal of all current deputy ministers.

The party said this would save the country more than R1 billion yearly.

This follows President Cyril Ramaphosa's appointment of Professor Firoz Cachalia as acting police minister.

ActionSA parliamentary leader Athol Trollip said South Africa has the biggest Cabinet in the world.

“We have seen that deputy ministers are for all intents and purposes glorified doormen and doorwomen for the ministers. We’ve seen now in this case with the police incident that they are not good enough to be promoted to become ministers.”

Trollip said they want more levels of vetting.

“We believe that obviously the president has the right to select who he wants on his Cabinet, but we believe there must be some kind of screening. We’ve seen Justice Zondo this weekend saying how it pains him to swear ministers into Cabinet that he had found against in the Zondo commission.”