President Cyril Ramaphosa unveiled South Africa’s new coalition cabinet on Sunday, nearly a month after his African National Congress lost its majority for the first time since the end of apartheid 30 years ago.
In a move likely to be welcomed by the markets, the opposition Democratic Alliance, which won 21.8 per cent of the vote in the recent elections, was given six of the 30 ministerial positions and the position of deputy finance minister.
Ramaphosa included eight parties in his cabinet, but the country’s two most radical political groups, Julius Malema’s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) which had campaigned on expropriating land, and uMkhonto weSizwe (MK), run by former ANC president Jacob Zuma, were not included.
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