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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.
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]
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]
A member of the African National Congress (ANC), she has been the Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation since July 2024. She joined the National Assembly of South Africa in the 2024 general election. Between 2009 and 2024, Moraka was a Member of the Limpopo Provincial Legislature.
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]
Tshwete was appointed as Deputy Minister of Human Settlements under the newly appointed minister, Mmamoloko Kubayi. [19] While in this office, at the ANC's 55th National Conference in December 2022, Tshwete was elected to a third consecutive term in the ANC National Executive Committee; she was ranked 71st among the 80 candidates elected. [20]
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]