In the early 2000s, public policy-making in South Africa witnessed the restructuring of the Presidency of South Africa - an institution that became central to policy-making in democratic South Africa. The restructuring process followed on the first five years of post-apartheid, democratic government, and stood in the wake of Thabo Mbeki's 1999 accession to the Presidency of the country. In a 2001 article in the Journal of Public Administration, the author recorded the early parts of accompanying changes in stake-holding in public policy-making, from broad consultation to early centralisation. In the period since 2001, the early trends towards institutional centralisation have evolved into an elaborate system of coordination and integration of public policy-making. These trends became pivotal to policy processes in South Africa. They are the primary focus of this article. The system of coordination emerged against the background o