the president carries on to employ the third largest cabinet in the world with all the costs and perceptions that go with it that is the wrong signal to give and because of that it is easy for cosatu to take control of the boomerang in midair and return it as an unguided missile in the form of strikes and demands the government and the treasury should concentrate on changing this message that they send to the public and the unions and be sure that they buy into this new message the president should make his cabinet smaller