Rasool Faces Party Uprising - Possible Cabinet Reshuffle
The split in the ANC in the Western Cape between current Provincial Premier Ebrahim Rasool and ANC Provincial Secretary Mcebisi Skwatsha seems to be coming to a head (again). Rasool has admitted that there is a pressure within the ANC for him to reshuffle his cabinet. Doing so would probably make Rasool even more of a lame duck then he currently is.
The Skwatsha camp is denying that they are putting Rasool under pressure although his admittance of the fact and that he is now “reluctant to get into this discussion because I have bound myself to discipline on this matter” probably means that there are very heated discussions happening at Western Cape ANC meetings.
I am still unsure why the Skwatsha camp is not happy with Rasool, or why in fact there is a split. Skwatsha is supposedly the head of an ‘Africanist’ faction but if you consider that the proposed names on the new cabinet list include names like Max Ozinsky and Yousuf Gabru that doesn’t seem to be the reason for the reshuffle. Perhaps Skwatsha is unhappy with Rasool not being more vigorous in attempting to remove Helen Zille as Cape Town Mayor, he was awfully quiet during the entire affair.