South Africa in the news:
- All the president’s men: inside Ramaphosa’s cabinet: South Africa’s newly elected president, Cyril Ramaphosa, named a new cabinet on Monday, replacing some of his predecessor Jacob Zuma’s most ineffectual ministers and ardent supporters with his own loyalists from the ruling African National Congress.: “South Africa” – BingNews
- Reasons for Guptas’ naturalisation challenged: Gigaba used his ministerial discretion to grant citizenship to the Guptas despite the fact that several members of the family had not lived in South Africa continuously for five years, which caused their initial application to be rejected. During a …: “South Africa” – BingNews
- South African cabinet reshuffle: the good, the bad and the rand: Gigaba is known to have fast tracked citizenship for the Gupta brothers, who are alleged to have orchestrated a number of misdealings with the state’s purse and are currently fugitives of South Africa. Gigaba, in his previous stint as Home Affairs …: “South Africa” – BingNews
- Erasmus set to be confirmed as Springboks coach: Since Allister Coetzee was sacked this month after winning only 11 of 25 Tests in two seasons, it has been accepted that South Africa director of rugby Erasmus will take over. But the 45-year-old former Springbok loose forward and the country’s rugby …: “South Africa” – BingNews
- ‘No one says the Indian team were not at their best when we lose’: Ravi Shastri lays into critics: India coach Ravi Shastri has come down heavily on the critics who feel that India’s success in the limited overs series was due to absence of some top South Africa stars and said most of them are probably happy when the team loses. Virat Kohli’s men …: “South Africa” – BingNews