MINISTER SWORN IN FIRST TO CATCH FLIGHT

MBABANE – Commerce, Industry and Trade Minister Manqoba Khumalo was the first Cabinet member to be sworn in yesterday.

This was because, according to the Attorney General Sifiso Mashampu Khumalo, the minister was rushing to the airport to catch a flight.
However, he was not specific about the minister’s destination. The minister, as per the AG’s statement, quickly made his way to the stage where he was joined by his wife and took the oath of office of minister for the relevant minister.

Thereafter he exited the marquee where the ceremony took place. Another minister who missed the ceremony in its entirety was Thuli Dladla who is now in charge of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. Highly informed sources stated that the minister had travelled on a national assignment with the country’s authorities. 

It could not be established when Dladla, would return, but it is certain that her first assignment would be to go to Cabinet and be sworn in.  This morning, the ministers are expected to visit their respective ministries where they will be introduced to members of staff.
They were informed that on Thursday they were expected back in Cabinet to get down to business.

Meanwhile, Chief Gija yesterday advised the Prime Minister, Ambrose Dlamini, to resemble the differential gear box known as a ‘diff’.
The Elections and Boundaries Commission chairperson gave all present a lecture on how motor vehicles operated and said that was what he was expecting from the new government, to operate like a car.

“Be one Cabinet and be a winning one, like a car it should travel in one direction instead of other tyres facing the other way,” he said.

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