Communications Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams has taken a swipe at critics who disapprove of how she runs her department, saying: “There is the Trinity – God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. But others think there is also God Stella”
Communications and Digital Technologies Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams has taken a swipe at critics who disapprove of how she runs her department, saying: “There is the Trinity – God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. But others think there is also God Stella.”
“But the two things I’m committed to are that I shouldn’t undermine the Constitution of this country and I shouldn’t steal from the poor. From there, nobody is going to stop me for as long as I don’t do those two things. She laughed off the popular refrain in political circles that she was untouchable owing to her closeness with Ramaphosa.
The person accused the minister of destabilising the SABC; imposing people linked to her husband, Thato Abrahams, on the board of the SA Post Office; and appointing controversial persons at the State Information Technology Agency and the Universal Service and Access Agency of SA , and later withdrawing the latter; as well as having private business interests through her husband in government’s broadband roll-out.
Ndabeni-Abrahams said on Wednesday that her first responsibility after taking over last year was to reconfigure the department, which included merging the departments of communications and of telecommunications, which legally took effect on Wednesday.
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