South Africa's unprecedented new coalition has 7 parties in the Cabinet. Here's a breakdown
Posted on AllSides July 1st, 2024
CAPE TOWN – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has included seven different parties in his Cabinet in an unprecedented power-sharing agreement in the continent's most industrialized country after the African National Congress lost its parliamentary majority in a milestone election result in late May. Ramaphosa's announcement of the new Cabinet on Sunday night takes South Africa into uncharted political territory after 30 years of dominance by the ANC, which liberated the country from the white minority rule of apartheid in 1994 and had governed ever since. The new multiparty Cabinet...