Mistaken identity: South Africans are confusing Minister of Home Affairs Leon Schreiber with comedian Leon Schuster...
Local CelebsThe president has barely announced his new cabinet, and South Africans are already confusing Minister of Home Affairs Leon Schreiber with popular comedian Leon Schuster.John Steenhuisen ,
Dean Macpherson , Dion George , Siviwe Gwarube and Solly Malatsi .In his first official tweet since the cabinet announcement, Leon Schreiber posted: “It is my honour to be appointed as Minister of Home Affairs for the Republic of South Africa. I pledge to serve you to the best of my abilities and in a spirit of collaboration, to demonstrate that South Africans can fix even the most intractable problems when we work together”.
Some South Africans thought the new Home Affairs minister was Leon Schuster, not Leon Schreiber. Can you imagine Leon Schuster being Home Affairs minister? Next time the system is offline, we just get a press statement saying "Oh shucks, I'm gatvol"He has a bachelor’s degree in International Studies, and a PhD in political science.
The minister matriculated in 2006 from the Paul Roos Gymnasium in Stellenbosch, a school well known for producing Springbok players. Schreiber is a published author, and wrote Coalition Country: South Africa After the ANC, which in 2018.In 2019, Schreiber resigned from Stellenbosch University’s Institutional Forum after English being elevated above Afrikaans as a teaching medium at the university.
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