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South Africa: Government of National Unity Negotiations Stuck on Cabinet Positions
allAfrica, 28 June 2024
South Africa's lauded Government of National Unity is deadlocked as the two parties with the most votes are unable to agree on Cabinet appointments. The Cabinet was expected to be… Read more »
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South Africa: DA to Continue Talks With ANC Amid Dispute Over Cabinet Posts
Daily Maverick, 28 June 2024
The DA's Federal Executive will continue negotiations with the ANC about the composition of the government of national unity despite major differences over the allocation of… Read more »
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South Africa: Better Angels Prevailed - Now SA's Politicians Must Make the GNU Work
Daily Maverick, 23 June 2024
While the 2024 elections could never top the first democratic polls 30 years ago, there is a distinct 'post-1994 feeling' to the new reality facing South Africa. Read more »
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South Africa: A South Africa Party? Strange and Difficult to Comprehend While Not Impossible to Imagine
Daily Maverick, 26 June 2024
While ever more political parties claim they are prepared to work with the ANC in some form in a national government, it is worth examining how close to one another these parties… Read more »
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South Africa: Cabinet Announcement Expected On Sunday or Early Next Week As ANC, DA, PA Table First Wish Lists
Daily Maverick, 20 June 2024
The ANC and DA are far apart, but have agreed to stop public brawls to keep the GNU on track. Read more »
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South Africa: South Africa's New Coalition Govt Heralds Change for the Region and Its Leaders
Chatham House, 21 June 2024
Many of southern Africa's liberation leaders should take heed that electorates are impatient for tangible change - as the ANC has discovered. Read more »
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South Africa: The Health Minister South Africa Needs - Astute Politician, Inspired Leader, Humble and Fair
spotlight, 10 June 2024
By month end, South Africa will have a new Minister of Health. Ufrieda Ho asked some academics and activists what qualities that person should have to tackle the key health issues… Read more »
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South Africa: GNU to Advance the Interest of All South Africans
SAnews.gov.za, 20 June 2024
The Government of National Unity is keen on advancing the interest of all South Africans while also creating employment, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Wednesday. Read more »
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South Africa: Who Will Be SA's Minister of Health in the New Cabinet?
spotlight, 4 June 2024
After the ANC received less than 41% of the votes in last week's national elections, negotiations are now underway that will determine how and by who South Africa is governed.… Read more »
South Africa's Govt Negotiations Continue Despite Cabinet Row
South Africa's lauded Government of National Unity had been deadlocked as the two parties with the most votes are unable to agree on Cabinet appointments. The Cabinet was expected to be named this week but a series of "leaked letters" between the African National Congress (ANC) and Democratic Alliance (DA) leadership reveals that the row over executive posts continues.
President Cyril Ramaphosa shares a light moment with then DA Chief Whip John Steenhuisen in Parliament (file photo).
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South Africa: All Eyes On Ramaphosa to See Who Gets Which Cabinet Positions
Daily Maverick, 18 June 2024
When President Cyril Ramaphosa announces his Cabinet sometime after his inauguration on Wednesday, it will signal the seriousness of shaping this much-talked-about national unity… Read more »
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South Africa: Effective, Streamlined Government and Cabinet Needed to Drive Crucial Reforms
Daily Maverick, 18 June 2024
Cabinet would be greatly strengthened by a far more rigorous process of priority setting so that it focuses on doing fewer things well. The Cabinet needs a small number of clearly… Read more »
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South Africa: Seventh Parliament Set Up Internal Structures for Start of New Parliamentary Term
Parliament of South Africa, 24 June 2024
Following the election of the Presiding Officers and the inauguration of the new President, the focus of the 7th Parliament will now shift to establishing internal structures… Read more »
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South Africa: Trim South Africa's Cabinet to Build Capacity and Boost Productivity, Urges Think-Tank
Daily Maverick, 12 June 2024
The Centre for Development and Enterprise, a think-tank, believes that a smaller Cabinet of 20 ministers would be 'more agile, more collegial, and more able to maintain a degree of… Read more »
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South Africa: What Is It Like to Be an Opposition Politician Turned Cabinet Member?
Daily Maverick, 20 June 2024
President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to give Cabinet roles to several political parties in the GNU. It can be a strange situation for opposition politicians. We spoke to someone… Read more »
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South Africa: President Ramaphosa's Reminder of Sandile Dikeni's Love Poem Was Exactly What Our Country's New Union Needed
Daily Maverick, 21 June 2024
There were loud cheers when President Cyril Ramaphosa took the podium and spoke from the heart, acknowledging his and his party's failures and his acceptance of the results of the… Read more »
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Cyril Ramaphosa has been sworn in for his second term as the country's president during a ceremony at the Union Buildings in Tshwane. Ramaphosa's inauguration will enable him to ... Read more »
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Former president and uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) leader Jacob Zuma has said that his political party will join the opposition alliance in Parliament to coordinate ... Read more »
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In his first address to the nation, President-elect Cyril Ramaphosa thanked the newly sworn-in MPs who voted for him for their trust, saying: "I intend to work with all members and ... Read more »
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President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced the African National Congress (ANC) will pursue a national unity government after losing its parliamentary majority for the first time since ... Read more »
During the inauguration of President Cyril Ramaphosa, the Union Buildings in Pretoria were illuminated by the South African flag.
