KAROO NEWS - With the announcement of the seventh administration’s cabinet on Sunday 30 June Graaff-Reinet resident and Dr Beyers Naudé Constituency Leader, Samantha Graham-Maré, was named South Africa’s new Deputy Minister of Electricity and Energy.
The position is not entirely new to Graham-Maré as she served as the DA’s Shadow Minister of Electricity since April last year, fulfilling the pivotal function of holding the then Minister of Electricity, Kgosientso Ramakgopa, accountable to his mandate.
Speaking to Graaff-Reinet Advertiser, Graham-Maré said she is absolutely astounded at the outpouring of congratulations received after her appointment. “I cannot keep on top of all the messages.
I answered messages until 01:45 this morning, I was awake again at 07:00 doing messages, and I cannot get on top of them. The level of support blows my mind,” she says.
“You wouldn’t think that it matters to so many people, but evidently it does. I think people in this country is so desperately looking for hope and the fact that the DA now has some positions in the Government of National Unity has brought that hope to them.”
On the Government of National Unity Graham-Maré says she believes that it is something that everybody can get behind, no matter what their political affiliation.
Read more about Graham-Maré’s new role as Deputy Minister of Electricity and Energy in the next edition of Graaff-Reinet Advertiser.
‘Ons bring jou die nuutste Tuinroete, Hessequa, Karoo nuus’
