foot in mouth
Democratic Alliance leader Geordin Hill-Lewis’s letter to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa asking for a wide-ranging cabinet reshuffle has been met with resistance from the African National Congress.

The request from the Democratic Alliance (DA) that South Africa’s agriculture minister John Steenhuisen be moved to the position of deputy minister of trade, industry and competition comes days after his long-running row with farmers’ organisations over his handling of the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak.
