From Cabinet to court

There will be no Cabinet table, ministerial briefings and government convoy carrying Ghanzi legislator Noah Salakae into an official engagement. Instead, Salakae, who this week resigned from his Cabinet post as Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, is expected to walk through the doors of the courthouse.

For a man like Salakae, it will be a remarkable descent from a Cabinet chamber to the accused’s dock. The authority of a ministerial title will now give way to the colder language of the criminal law. For Salakae, like other former ministers before him, the image will be difficult to miss as the media will be waiting for a glimpse of the man whose sudden departure from Cabinet has already triggered intense public interest.