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Deputy ministers are appointed by the president of South Africa. They are not members of the cabinet. They assist cabinet ministers in the execution of their duties. The current deputy ministers are listed in the table below. The original group of deputy ministers officially took office upon their swearing-in on 3 July 2024. [22]
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.
Godlimpi began his career at ANC headquarters at Luthuli House, working as the ANCYL's national policy coordinator from 2013 to 2014. [3] In 2014, he entered public service, becoming an economic researcher at the Department of Trade and Industry; he was stationed in the office of the Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, a position then held by Mzwandile Masina. [3]
At the conference, Cyril Ramaphosa, the incumbent President of South Africa, was re-elected as ANC president, defeating a challenge from Zweli Mkhize. He thereby became the party's presumptive presidential candidate at the next national general election in 2024. Paul Mashatile was elected his deputy.
In addition, 42 deputy ministers were named from among the coalition parties. In the 6th Parliament's final session, the National Assembly voted to establish the Electoral Reform Consultation Panel to independently investigate and recommend potential reforms to South Africa's electoral system. [188]
Ahead of the May 2024 general election, Mhlauli stood as an ANC candidate, ranked 22nd on the party's national list. [21] She was elected to a seat in the National Assembly, and on 30 June President Ramaphosa announced her appointment as Deputy Minister in the Presidency. [4]
John Harold Jeffery (born 31 October 1963) has been the Deputy Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development in South Africa since 2013. [1] He was appointed by President Jacob Zuma in a cabinet reshuffle on 9 July 2013, [2] [3] [4] and has remained in the post throughout the tenure of current President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Mkhungo was born on 7 July 1959. [1] Hlophe, his legal surname, is his mother's surname. [2]He rose to political prominence as a trade unionist in the South African Municipal Workers' Union, first as a union organiser and then as the union's provincial secretary in KwaZulu-Natal between 1998 and 2006. [2]