Ramaphosa, new ministers to hold first Cabinet lekgotla next week to discuss policy
Minister Ntshavheni said that government priorities were still informed by the medium-term strategic framework, even under the 11-party Government of National Unity.
Ministers and deputy ministers of the Government of National Unity pose after being sworn in at the CTICC in Cape Town on 3 July 2024. Picture: @GovernmentZA/X
CAPE TOWN - Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said the president and his newly-minted ministers will hold their first Cabinet lekgotla next week to discuss policy.
This is where the country's policy direction is to be formulated and discussed by the Government of National Unity (GNU) before the president comes up with his new government’s programme of action.
Ntshavheni outlined the GNU's plans at the first media briefing of the GNU administration in Parliament on Thursday.
Minister Ntshavheni said that government priorities were still informed by the medium-term strategic framework, even under the 11-party Government of National Unity.
She said the manifestos of the different parties would be analysed by a forum of SA directors-general before this went to the Cabinet lekgotla next week.
"The government's priorities and programme of action is articulated in the medium-term strategic framework (MTSF), which is guided by the election manifesto of the governing party, in the case of the GNU, governing parties."
She said that a Cabinet lekgotla taking place on Thursday and Friday next week would then fine-tune the GNU's priorities before these were presented by the president.
"The adopted programme of action which will then be the MTSF, which will be announced by the president at the opening of Parliament on July 19."
On ideological differences, Ntshavheni said this was a matter for the parties to deal with and was not Cabinet consideration.