Geraldine Joslyn Fraser-Moleketi

Of 28 cabinet ministers twelve are women (9 in the last cabinet): Thoko Didiza (Agriculture & Land) Ivy Matsepe Casaburri (Communications) Naledi Pandor (Education) Dlamini-Zuma Manto Tshabalala-Msimang (Health) Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula (Home Affairs) Lindiwe Sisulu (Housing) Bridgette Mabandla (Justice) Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka (Mines) Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi (Public Service) Stella Sigcau (Public Works) and Buyi Sonjica (Water)...

Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi Public Services and Administration Minister...

Six members of the SACP's 25-strong Central Committee are in cabinet: Chairperson Charles Nqakula; his deputy Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi; Jeff Radebe; Essop Pahad (Minister in the Office of the President and Mbeki's personal enforcer); Sydney Mufamadi; and Ronnie Kasrils...

Other cabinet ministers who work on aspects of restructuring - privatisation (Jeff Radebe SACP Politbureau member and Public Enterprise Minister) civil service restructuring and downsizing (Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi SACP Deputy Chairperson and Public Service and Administration Minister) and labour-market deregulation (Membathisi Mdladlana former trades unionist and Minister of Labour) have mastered the routine of talking left and acting right...

It has not done so and the armed forces say they have been put on hold until the Minister for Public Service and Administration Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi can implement an employer-initiated retrenchment package for her department; senior officers also complain that the forces on top of their military duties have to spend R166...

Public-private partnerships would fit in with plans to cut the state payroll being drawn up by Public Service Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi...

His trusted ally Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi the SACP's Deputy Chairperson oversees job cuts in the civil service as Public Administration Minister...

'Outrageous demands' In parliament meanwhile Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi described some union demands as 'outrageous'...

Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi declared that the mechanism would be in place by December at the same time announcing that the government would unilaterally implement its latest pay offer...

He is confident that Dlamini-Zuma's popularity within the ANC will vindicate what opposition parties have dismissed as an eccentric choice but one which gives women three senior ministries: Zuma Msimang and the impressive Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi who runs civil service reform at Public Service and Administration...