Civil society organisations and political parties on Tuesday slammed President Cyril Ramaphosa’s cabinet reshuffle for failing to tackle some of the country’s most pressing challenges including unemployment, the alarming crime rate and declining healthcare. On Monday evening, after much delay and speculation, Ramaphosa announced changes to his cabinet, with some ministers being moved to different portfolios and most of his detractors getting the chop. The reshuffle saw the appointment of Paul Mashatile as the country’s deputy president and the creation of two new ministerial posts electricity and planning monitoring & evaluation. The former will be headed by Kgosientsho Ramokgopa and the latter by Maropene Ramokgopa. In this conversation, Lerato Mbele is joined by political analysts Lwazi Somya and Dr Ebrahim Harvey to talk about the significance of the ministry of planning, monitoring and evaluation and the centralisation of power by the Ramaphosa administration.