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LONDON (Reuters) -South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Sunday a cabinet of the country's government of national unity following weeks of protracted and at times acrimonious ...
The third cabinet of Cyril Ramaphosa, also known as the Government of National Unity (GNU), is the incumbent cabinet of the Government of South Africa.It was appointed on 30 June 2024 after Ramaphosa's African National Congress (ANC) lost its absolute majority in the May 2024 general election and formed a ten-member coalition government.
Ramaphosa's announcement of his new, multi-party Cabinet came a month after the ANC lost its 30-year political dominance of Africa's most industrialized country in a national election, forcing it ...
Ramaphosa's announcement of the new Cabinet on Sunday night takes South Africa into uncharted political territory after 30 years of dominance by the ANC, which liberated the country from the white minority rule of apartheid in 1994 and had governed ever since.
For the next forty-six years, South Africa would be governed by the National Party. On 31 May 1961, South Africa became a republic and Queen Elizabeth II was replaced as head of state with a state president with largely ceremonial powers. [37] The Prime Minister was still head of government and appointed/dismissed members of the cabinet.
General elections were held in South Africa on 29 May 2024 to elect a new National Assembly as well as the provincial legislature in each of the nine provinces. [1] [2] This was the 7th general election held under the conditions of universal adult suffrage since the end of the apartheid era in 1994.
Ramaphosa's announcement of the new Cabinet on Sunday night takes South Africa into uncharted political territory after 30 years of dominance by the ANC, which liberated the country from the white ...
14 June – Cyril Ramaphosa is re-elected as President of South Africa for a second term. [21] 19 June – Cyril Ramaphosa is sworn in for a second term as President of South Africa. [22] 20 June – Democratic Alliance MP Renaldo Gouws is suspended after old videos of him making derogatory and inciteful remarks against black people emerge ...