The cabinet score cards show persistent underperformance
The Mail & Guardian | 18.02.2026 21:33
The FW de Klerk Foundation, News24 and the Mail & Guardian undertake cabinet performance assessments. All three systems correlate well statistically and have shown an improvement in cabinet performance since 2020, from a mean cabinet performance score of 5.21 to 5.5–5.8 in 2025. However, these encouraging improvements coincided with the formation of the Government of National Unity (GNU) in 2024 and 2025.
