GNU ministers, deputies to be schooled on dos and don'ts of communication, says Ntshavheni
Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni say ministers and their deputies will be inducted on the correct communication protocols, standards and etiquette expected.
The government of national unity ministers and their deputies will soon undergo training on the dos and don'ts of communication, particularly on social media. She said South Africans would start to see more ministers and deputy ministers communicating more about their government programmes rather than their personal views. Shortly after President Cyril Ramaphosa appointed his Cabinet, some ministers, including Minister of Public Works Dean McPherson, Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber, and Sports, Arts and Culture Minister Gayton McKenzie, took to social media to claim easy victories for their political parties.
She said communication was not static and that government needed to keep up with the latest communication trends. On matters of international relations, the minister said the Cabinet was also briefed about a formal dispute the country initiated with the World Trade Organisation against the EU's"stringent and unnecessary" plant health requirements regarding citrus black spot and false codling moth regulations on the export of South Africa's citrus products to the EU.
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