Various opposition parties have criticised the major reshuffle of and key appointments to Western Cape Premier Lynne Brown's newly chosen cabinet.
Announcing her cabinet appointments, Brown said she had appointed a team with the aim of continuing the work done in the past.
"This is a group of people to focus on only on thing - service delivery," she said.
Brown said hers was a team with skills and expertise and that although she had moved people from departments they ran well and brought in fresh people, it would strengthen her government's people-driven programme.
"We are not going to change policy or implementation plan," said Brown.
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Commenting on the news, Cape Town Mayor Helen Zille said on Friday: "It's unprecedented to change a cabinet nine months before an election. Only one person, Cobus Dowry, kept his position and that creates massive instability."
Zille said this was because it took, in her view, at least a year for an MEC to take sufficient control of a department - time they may not have.
The DA also slammed the appointment of Patrick McKenzie as MEC for Community Safety, saying it would not have any positive results.
"McKenzie has, as yet, not been successful in any of the portfolios he's held as MEC in the Western Cape.
He lacks the vision and commitment necessary to bring about change in a department which has been rife with malpractice over the past five years," it said.
And Cape Town ID mayoral committee member for Economic Development and Tourism, Simon Grindrod, questioned what he called "the creation of a new mega-ministry, under the auspices of Garth Strachan" who has been appointed Finance, Economic Development and Tourism MEC.
Grindrod said: "Brown must have had a huge fight on her hands, because the Zuma faction now controls the finances of this province, in the person of Garth Strachan.
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