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Dhlomo was the chairperson of the Parliamentary Health Portfolio Committee. [8] On 6 August 2021, after former Deputy Joe Phaahla was promoted to head the Department of Health, Sibongiseni Dhlomo took his place as Deputy Minister of Health. [9]
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
In the South African government, the minister of health is the member of the national Cabinet responsible for the Department of Health, and therefore for national health policy and the administration of public health. The position is of particular importance in South Africa because of the massive impact of the AIDS pandemic in the country.
Although deputy ministers are not members of the cabinet, they are appointed by the president and assist cabinet ministers in the execution of their duties. During the term of Ramaphosa's second cabinet, they were, like the cabinet, appointed in May 2019 [ 22 ] and reshuffled in August 2021 [ 23 ] and March 2023.
The executive branch of the national government of South Africa is divided into the cabinet and the civil service, as in the Westminster system. Public administration, the day-to-day implementation of legislation and policy, is managed by government departments (including state agencies with department status), which are usually headed by permanent civil servants with the title of director ...
The Department of Health is the executive department of the national government that is assigned to oversee healthcare in South Africa, reporting to the Minister of Health. The Office for Health Standards and Compliance was established in 2014.
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 graduating, and until the end of apartheid in 1994, Phaahla worked as a doctor and medical administrator in the Transvaal. [1] He was a senior medical officer and superintendent at Mapulaneng Hospital in Bushbuckridge from 1987 until 1990, when he was appointed as medical superintendent at St Rita's Hospital in Glen Cowie; [4] then, between 1993 and 1994, he was the director of medical ...