DA: Mabuza incapable and unreliable to oversee the vaccine rollout plan

This comes after President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that an Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) has been established to oversee the country’s Covid-19 vaccination program.

 Deputy President David Mabuza will chair the committee which will meet on a weekly basis.

The DA’s Siviwe Gwarube says Mabuza is not reliable enough to steer the program.

"We do not believe that Deputy President Mabuza is a competent and reliable figure to oversee this process as he has a history of failure in governance.

As Premier of Mpumalanga, Mabuza ran the province like his own personal fiefdom where corruption, political violence, and the complete collapse of the State is still a lasting legacy in the province," says Gwarube.

She adds: "He (Mabuza) currently serves as the Chairperson of the Political Task Team on Eskom, a position in which has failed dismally. South Africa is nowhere close to energy security since Mabuza has been brought on board; in fact, we have been plunged further into darkness."

 Listen to Siviwe Gwarube below:

Gwarube says Mabuza has been an absentee Deputy President since the beginning of Covid-19 crisis.

"While South Africans were looking to government to show leadership, Mabuza has been in hiding for the past 10 months.

It is, therefore, unconscionable that President Ramaphosa would entrust one of the most monumental tasks of South Africa’s democratic dispensation in the hands of a man who is not only allegedly corrupt but who is clearly incapable of overseeing a programme of this magnitude.

"David Mazuba is simply not the right man for the job," says Gwarube.

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