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The clearing house will not override cabinet decisions but will ensure that parties find each other on policy matters, minister in the presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has set up a clearing house mechanism to resolve policy disagreements within the 10-member government of National Unity (GNU). The clearing house will not override cabinet decisions but will ensure that parties find each other on policy matters, minister in the presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said.
She said that the Cabinet remained the final decision-making body in government and not any outside political arrangement. Ntshavheni told a post-Cabinet briefing on Friday that President Cyril Ramaphosa’s powers also could not be “watered down” by other structures within the GNU.
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Minister Ntshavheni also said that Cabinet welcomed the decision by Ramaphosa to set up a “clearing house mechanism” to deal with matters that parties within the GNU may differ on. She said that the clearing house mechanism also had no bearing on government business, which still needed to be decided on by Cabinet. Ntshavheni said that political differences would be dealt with at the political leaders’ forums of members of the parties who signed the statement of intent.
