Presidency

PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa has denied centralising power in his office and setting up a parallel structure in the Presidency.

This comes after opposition parties criticised Ramaphosa for appointing advisers and task teams in his office to do some of the same jobs of his ministers.

They said this was a vote of no confidence in his ministers. But Ramaphosa said this was not true. He said the Presidency was working with other departments on a number of programmes.

There were no parallel structures as had been suggested, he said. | Political Bureau