{"id":318446,"date":"2019-05-22T12:37:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T10:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=318446"},"modified":"2019-05-22T12:37:30","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T10:37:30","slug":"the-3-names-tipped-to-be-ramaphosas-new-deputy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/318446\/the-3-names-tipped-to-be-ramaphosas-new-deputy\/","title":{"rendered":"The 3 names tipped to be Ramaphosa&#8217;s new deputy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Cyril Ramaphosa has been tipped to appoint a new deputy president as part of his cabinet changes this week.<\/p>\n<p>South African deputy president David Mabuza\u2019s reappointment to his post was cast into doubt on Wednesday (22 May), after he asked to delay his swearing-in as a lawmaker.<\/p>\n<p>Mabuza asked to delay the process \u201cin light of a report by the ANC Integrity Commission in which he is alleged to have prejudiced the integrity of the ANC and brought the organization into disrepute,\u201d Ramaphosa said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Under the constitution, his deputy must be selected from among the ranks of the 400 lawmakers, meaning Mabuza could be disqualified if he doesn\u2019t clear his name in the next few days.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Possible replacements<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/dlamini-zuma-pandor-tipped-to-become-deputy-president-20190522\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">News24<\/a><\/strong>, ANC sources said that Ramaphosa is likely to appoint a female as his deputy when he announces his cabinet after the presidential inauguration on Saturday (25 May).<\/p>\n<p>Minister in the Presidency <strong>Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma<\/strong> and minister of Higher Education <strong>Naledi Pandor<\/strong> have been mentioned as possible candidates.<\/p>\n<p>ANC treasurer general and former Gauteng premier, <strong>Paul Mashatile,<\/strong> has also been named as a possible &#8216;wildcard&#8217; selection.<\/p>\n<p>Dlamini-Zuma stood as a main opponent in the most recent ANC presidential election, only narrowly missing out on victory by a slim margin.<\/p>\n<p>Her election to deputy-president may be seen as a move by Ramaphosa to appease some ANC factions, including the Women&#8217;s League.<\/p>\n<p>Pandor has held a number of cabinet positions including roles as minister of Home Affairs and minister of Science and Technology.<\/p>\n<p>She served as Ramaphosa&#8217;s original choice for deputy president at Nasrec, but lost out to Mabuza during the last ANC meeting.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/318428\/south-african-deputy-president-david-mabuzas-reappointment-in-doubt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">South African deputy president David Mabuza\u2019s reappointment in doubt<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Cyril Ramaphosa has been tipped to appoint a new deputy president as part of his new cabinet changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":96017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-318446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318446"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318458,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318446\/revisions\/318458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}