Ministers and deputy ministers from nine parties took their oath of office after weeks of fraught coalition talks
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The DA now holds six cabinet portfolios — John Steenhuisen in agriculture, Siviwe Gwarube in health, Dean Macpherson in public works and infrastructure, Dion George in forestry, fisheries and the environment, Leon Schreiber in home affairs and Solly Malatsi in communications and digital technologies.
“I got a call from the president at 10 past seven on Sunday night,” he said, adding that this then necessitated an emergency meeting of the party’s highest structures to decide whether to accept the surprise nomination. There were two light moments in the solemn proceedings, one unscripted and the other perhaps less so.
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