[TOP STORY] ‘Cut the fat, don't hike the Vat’: ActionSA calls for radical cabinet reform

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‘The less cabinet ministers and deputy ministers you have, the more agile the government would be. I think that's the objective, to have an agile, reactive government that can work quickly,’ says parliamentary leader of ActionSA, Athol Trollip.

4 Mar 7AM English South Africa Business News · Politics

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