Former police commissioner Bheki Cele will bring political guidance to the agriculture, forestry and fisheries ministry, his spokesman Vuyo Mkhize said on Wednesday.

"Cele is not going to the department to be a DG [director general] or to be a bureaucrat, he's going to the department to provide political direction and guidance to the experts who are employed there as bureaucrats," Mkhize told Sapa.

"He's going in there to drive decisions of the ANC and to...read more here: Bheki Cele will bring political guidance to agriculture: spokesperson