Communications minister Dina Pule has been summarily sacked by President Jacob Zuma.
This follows months of controversy that has left a question mark hanging over Pule's integrity, and the public baying for her blood.
The news emerged today as Zuma announced a Cabinet reshuffle at a media conference at the Union Buildings in Pretoria.
Current deputy of co-operative governance and traditional affairs minister Yunus Carrim took over from Pule, with immediate effect.
Pule was appointed minister of communications during a cabinet reshuffle in October 2011.
She becomes the third minister to leave the post in as many years after Sphiwe Nyanda in 2010 and Roy Padayachee before her.
Pule was the deputy minister of communications under Padayachie's predecessor, Sphiwe Nyanda, between May 2009 and November 2010 - until both she and Nyanda were removed during a reshuffle.
The move comes amid two investigations that have been underway since the latter part of last year - by public protector Thuli Madonsela and Parliament's Joint Committee on Ethics and Members' Interests respectively.
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