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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 .
After the 2024 national and provincial election, president Cyril Ramaphosa announced the GNU cabinet and deputy ministers on 30 June 2024. [17] [20] The current members of the cabinet of the GNU are listed in the table below. [21] The deputy president and initial set of ministers officially took office upon their swearing-in on 3 July 2024. [22
Ramaphosa's party retained the largest share of ministerial positions as he appointed ANC officials to 20 of the 32 Cabinet minister roles in the new coalition.
The cabinet was the third cabinet in Africa to reach complete gender parity in its composition and the first gender-equal cabinet in South African history. [6] All of its members were affiliated with Ramaphosa's ANC, except for Patricia de Lille , the leader of Good , who was appointed as Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure .
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 ...
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.
South African parties are close to reaching a deal on who gets which cabinet posts, local media reported on Sunday, the last hurdle to setting up a government after the ruling party lost its ...
Gayton McKenzie (born 10 March 1974) is a South African politician and businessman who is currently serving as Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture in the Government of National Unity (GNU) since July 2024.