Ferial Haffajee: Ramaphosa set to merge two economic ministries

. The summit will be an annual event, which may put Patel in the running for a Cabinet role.

"What Ebrahim Patel has done very well is his work on the Competition Commission and the Competition Tribunal. Cartels in construction and other sectors have been broken," says political analyst Lumkile Mondi, adding the move to reincorporate the functions of the economic development department into the department of trade and industry is an important step.

Davies would like to oversee the changes to the department in a handover period, but the jury is out on whether the 70-year-old minister will get a place in Ramaphosa’s Cabinet. Officials have suggested that ANC rising star David Masondo could be given the job. He is a former Limpopo MEC for Finance.Ramaphosa’s Cabinet is likely to feature a number of young people. His term, which begins on Saturday, is really his first. Until now, he has been the caretaker of Zuma’s last Cabinet.

The teams working on Ramaphosa’s new Cabinet are considering significant consolidations: it is also likely that the minerals and energy ministries could be combined as they were in the past. On the other hand, with new energy forms rapidly in the ascendancy, this may not necessarily be a logical combination.

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