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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]
A South African general election was held on 29 May 2024 to elect the 28th Parliament of South Africa. [1] [2] Support for the incumbent governing party, the African National Congress (ANC), significantly declined in the election; the ANC remained the largest party but lost its majority in the National Assembly for the first time since the inaugural post-apartheid election in 1994. [3]
Minister of Education and Culture whites: Piet Clase Piet Marais: NP: 1989–1991 1991–1994 Minister of Education and Culture coloureds: Abe Williams: LP: 1992–1993 Minister of Mining and Energy: Dawie de Villiers George Bartlett: NP: 1989–1991 1991–1994 Minister of Economic Affairs: Dawie de Villiers Derek Keys: NP: 1991–1992 1992 ...
Nelson Mandela casts his vote in the 1994 election. Following the election of 27 April 1994, Nelson Mandela was sworn in as President of South Africa. The Government of National Unity was established; its cabinet made up of twelve African National Congress representatives, six from the National Party, and three from the Inkatha Freedom Party.
South Africa marked 30 years since the end of apartheid and the birth of its democracy with a ceremony in the capital Saturday that included a 21-gun salute and the waving of the nation's ...
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013); leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe 1961–90; President of South Africa 1994–99; Trevor Manuel (born 1956); Minister of Finance, 1996–2009; Isaac Lesiba Maphotho (1931–2019) South African anti-apartheid activist and Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) veteran; Govan Mbeki (1910–2001) South African activist and father of Thabo ...
South Africa became a republic under the Constitution of 1961 and the Monarch and Governor-General were replaced by a ceremonial State President. In 1984, under the Tricameral Constitution, the State President gained executive powers, becoming head of both state and government. Since 1994, under the Interim Constitution and the current ...
As an apartheid-era National Party cabinet minister, he held various portfolios in the cabinets of B.J. Vorster and P.W. Botha. He was regarded as one of the most reform‐minded ministers in the government. [1] He later served as South Africa Ambassador to the United States. After the end of apartheid, he joined the African National Congress ...