Thrown under the bus

for Nkandla
Nathi Nhleko
The police minister
engineered the
Nkandla denial
strategy his report
was thrown out of
court by President
Zumas lawyer

for other reasons

Geoff Doidge
The former public
works minister was
exiled to Sri Lanka
as ambassador
after he rushed to
get the Nkandla
renovations done

Thulas Nxesi
Nxesi was Gwen MahlanguNkabindes successor and
the architect of the rst
interministerial report to
clear Zuma of Nkandla
misspending. That report
was also thrown out of court
by the presidents counsel

Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu
The former deputy public
works minister was implicated
in the Special Investigating
Unit report on Nkandla. She
is now the deputy social
development minister

Max Sisulu
The former Speaker of
the National Assembly
did not retain the role
after agreeing to an
ad hoc committee in
Parliament to inquire into
a whitewashing of reports
about Nkandla

Nhlanhla Nene
Former nance
minister was
red in December
as part of a plan
to put Treasury
in malleable
political hands

Gwen Mahlangu-Nkabinde
The public works minister
at the time the upgrades
started put the cost of the
upgrades at only R6.4 million
in 2010. She was red in
2011 for her role in a police
leasing scandal

Pravin Gordhan
Reinstated as nance
minister, largely by the ANC;
he was sidelined as minister
of cooperative governance
and traditional affairs in
2014 until his return to
Treasury in 2015

Ben Martins
After a short stint
as minister of
energy, he was axed
for supporting his
director-general,
who insisted on an
open tender for the
nuclear power deal

David Des van Rooyen

Hes been the minister of
cooperative governance
and traditional affairs for
two months now. He was
nance minister for barely
a day before being axed

Ngoako Ramatlhodi
He served as mineral
resources minister
for just over a year
before being replaced
by Mosebenzi Zwane
who is allied to the
powerful Gupta family

Schabir Shaik
The former adviser
and best friend of
President Zuma
was found guilty of
corruption and is
largely abandoned
now

Blade Nzimande
The higher education
minister and chair of the
SA Communist Party
(SACP) was threatened
with axing through a
reshufe. The SACP has
led the critique of the role
of the Gupta family

Riah Phiyega
National police
commissioner from
June 2012 to the
end of 2014. She has
been the fall guy
for the massacre at
Marikana

Zwelinzima Vavi
Under the bus, but
was he pushed, or
did he jump?

Mxolisi Nxasana
Former director
of public
prosecutions was
axed after less
than two years
for not being
malleable

THEUNS KRUGER, Graphics24