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Dipuo Letsatsi-Duba
Dipuo Bertha Letsatsi-Duba (born 25 September 1965) is a South African politician who is currently serving as South African Ambassador to Turkey. She served as Minister of State Security in the first cabinet of President Cyril Ramaphosa from February 2018 to May 2019. Before that, she was Deputy Minister of Public Service and Administration from March 2017 to February 2018. A member of the African National Congress (ANC), Letsatsi-Duba previously served in the Limpopo Provincial Legislature from 2009 to 2014, holding three different portfolios in the Limpopo Executive Council under Premiers Cassel Mathale and Stan Mathabatha. After that, from 2014 to 2019, she served in the National Assembly, where she was chairperson of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Public Enterprises until President Jacob Zuma appointed her as a deputy minister in 2017. She resigned from the National Assembly in early June 2019 after failing to gain an appointment to Ramaphosa's second-term cabi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Assembly Of South Africa
The National Assembly is the directly elected house of the Parliament of South Africa, located in Cape Town, Western Cape. It consists of four hundred members who are elected every five years using a party-list proportional representation system where half of the members are elected proportionally from nine provincial lists and the remaining half from national lists so as to restore proportionality. The National Assembly is presided over by a Speaker, assisted by a Deputy Speaker. The current Speaker is Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula who previously served as the Minister of Defence and Military Veterans. She was elected on 19 August 2021. The Deputy Speaker is Solomon Lechesa Tsenoli who has served in the post since his election on 21 May 2014. The National Assembly chamber was destroyed in a fire in January 2022. National Assembly sittings will now be held in the old Good Hope Chamber, which is within the precincts of parliament. Allocation The National Assembly seats are allocated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African National Congress
The African National Congress (ANC) is a Social democracy, social-democratic political party in Republic of South Africa, South Africa. A liberation movement known for its opposition to apartheid, it has governed the country since 1994, when the 1994 South African general election, first post-apartheid election installed Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa. Cyril Ramaphosa, the incumbent national President, has served as President of the ANC since 18 December 2017. Founded on 8 January 1912 in Bloemfontein as the South African Native National Congress (SANNC), the organisation was formed to agitate, by moderate methods, for the rights of black South Africans. When the National Party (South Africa), National Party government came to power 1948 South African general election, in 1948, the ANC's central purpose became to oppose the new government's policy of institutionalised apartheid. To this end, its methods and means of organisation shifted; its adoption of the techn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apartheid
Apartheid (, especially South African English: , ; , "aparthood") was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. Apartheid was characterised by an authoritarian political culture based on ''baasskap'' (boss-hood or boss-ship), which ensured that South Africa was dominated politically, socially, and economically by the nation's minority white population. According to this system of social stratification, white citizens had the highest status, followed by Indians and Coloureds, then black Africans. The economic legacy and social effects of apartheid continue to the present day. Broadly speaking, apartheid was delineated into ''petty apartheid'', which entailed the segregation of public facilities and social events, and ''grand apartheid'', which dictated housing and employment opportunities by race. The first apartheid law was the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gauteng
Gauteng ( ) is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. The name in Sotho-Tswana languages means 'place of gold'. Situated on the Highveld, Gauteng is the smallest province by land area in South Africa. Although Gauteng accounts for only 1.5% of the country's land area, it is home to more than a quarter of its population (26%). Highly urbanised, the province contains the country's largest city, Johannesburg, which is also one of the largest cities in the world. Gauteng is the wealthiest province in South Africa and is considered as the financial hub of not only South Africa but the entire African continent, mostly concentrated in Johannesburg. It also contains the administrative capital, Pretoria, and other large areas such as Midrand, Vanderbijlpark, Ekurhuleni and the affluent Sandton. Gauteng is the most populous province in South Africa with a population of approximately 16.1 million people according to mid year 2022 estimates. Etymology The name ''Gauteng'' is derived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second Cabinet Of Cyril Ramaphosa
The Second Cabinet of Cyril Ramaphosa was formed on 29 May 2019 after President Ramaphosa was inaugurated for his first full-term as President of South Africa following the African National Congress's victory in the 2019 South African general election. The newly appointed ministers were inaugurated the next day by Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng at the Sefako Makgatho Presidential Guest House in Pretoria. The cabinet is the third cabinet in Africa to be made completely gender-equal in its composition and the first gender-equal cabinet in South African history. Amalgamations The new cabinet was reduced from 36 to 28 portfolios through the amalgamation of several departments. *The Department of Trade and Industry was combined with the Department of Economic Development. *The Department of Higher Education and Training was combined with the Department of Science and Technology. *The Department of Environmental Affairs was combined with the Department of Forestry and Fisheries. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parliament Of South Africa
The Parliament of the Republic of South Africa is South Africa's legislature; under the present Constitution of South Africa, the bicameral Parliament comprises a National Assembly and a National Council of Provinces. The current twenty-seventh Parliament was first convened on 22 May 2019. From 1910 to 1994, members of Parliament were elected chiefly by the South African white minority. The first elections with universal suffrage were held in 1994. Both chambers held their meetings in the Houses of Parliament, Cape Town that were built 1875–1884. A fire broke out within the buildings in early January 2022, destroying the session room of the National Assembly. The National Assembly will temporarily meet at the Good Hope Chamber. History Before 1910 The predecessor of the Parliament of South Africa, before the 1910 Union of South Africa, was the bicameral Parliament of the Cape of Good Hope. This was composed of the House of Assembly (the lower house) and the Legislati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stan Mathabatha
Chupu Stanley Mathabatha (born 21 January 1957) is a South African politician who is currently the Premier of Limpopo. He was elected to the position in July 2013 after the resignation of Cassel Mathale. He was previously a public servant in Limpopo province and from 2012 to 2013 completed a brief stint as a diplomat, serving as South African Ambassador to Ukraine under President Jacob Zuma. A former member of Umkhonto we Sizwe and the United Democratic Front, Mathabatha was elected the Provincial Chairperson of the African National Congress (ANC) in Limpopo in February 2014. He was elected to a third four-year term as ANC Provincial Chairperson in June 2022. He is also a member of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party. Early life and education Chupu Stanley Mathabatha was born on 21 January 1957. He is from the Sekhukhune region of what is now the Limpopo province of South Africa; at the time of Mathabatha's birth, during apartheid, it was part o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cassel Mathale
Cassel Mathale (born 23 January 1961) is a South African politician who was the third Premier of Limpopo between March 2009 and July 2013. He is currently the Deputy Minister of Police (South Africa), Minister of Police in the Government of South Africa, South African government and before that was Deputy Minister of Small Business Development from February 2018 to May 2019. Formerly an Internal resistance to apartheid, anti-apartheid activist in the United Democratic Front (South Africa), United Democratic Front, Mathale began his political career in the Limpopo Provincial Legislature, Limpopo provincial legislature and in the Limpopo branch of the African National Congress (ANC). He served as Provincial Secretary of the African National Congress, Provincial Secretary of the ANC in Limpopo from 2002 to 2008, when he was elected the party's Provincial Chairperson of the African National Congress, Provincial Chairperson. Additionally, from December 2008 he was a Member of the Ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Limpopo Executive Council
The Executive Council (South Africa), Executive Council of Limpopo is the cabinet of the executive branch of the Provincial governments of South Africa, provincial government in the South African Provinces of South Africa, province of Limpopo. The Members of the Executive Council (MECs) are appointed from among the members of the Limpopo Provincial Legislature by the Premier of Limpopo, an office held since July 2013 by Stanley Mathabatha, Stan Mathabatha. Mathale premiership: 2009–2013 Cassel Mathale was elected to his first full term as Premier in the 2009 South African general election, 2009 general election and on 6 May 2009 announced his new Executive Council, in which seven of ten MECs were new to the provincial cabinet. In August 2009, Public Works MEC Pandelani Ramagoma died and was replaced by George Phadagi. However, Phadagi and others were moved to new portfolios on 28 January 2011, when a cabinet reshuffle was announced. A subsequent reshuffle was announced on 13 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minister Of Public Service And Administration
The Minister of Public Service and Administration is a Minister in the Cabinet of South Africa. As of April 2022, the Minister of Employment and Labour, Thulas Nxesi, has been acting in the position following Minister Ayanda Dlodlo's resignation to become an executive director on the board of the World Bank The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects. The World Bank is the collective name for the Interna .... References External linksDepartment of Public Service and Administration Lists of political office-holders in South Africa {{SouthAfrica-gov-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Cabinet Of Cyril Ramaphosa
On 15 February 2018, Cyril Ramaphosa was inaugurated as the President of the Republic of South Africa to serve out the remainder of Jacob Zuma's term in office following Zuma's resignation the previous day. On 26 February 2018, he announced his new cabinet. The President announced a cabinet reshuffle on 22 November 2018, following the death of Minister Edna Molewa Edna or EDNA may refer to: Places United States *Edna, California, a census-designated place *Edna Lake, Idaho * Edna, Iowa, an unincorporated town in Lyon County *Edna Township, Cass County, Iowa *Edna, Kansas, a city * Edna, Kentucky, an uni ... and the resignation of Malusi Gigaba. There were a total of 33 ministerial portfolios in the cabinet. Ministers References {{Republic of South Africa Cabinets Government of South Africa Executive branch of the government of South Africa Cabinets of South Africa 2018 establishments in South Africa Cabinets established in 2018 2019 disestablishments in South Afri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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