{"id":865094,"date":"2026-06-30T22:06:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T20:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=865094"},"modified":"2026-06-30T22:44:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T20:44:43","slug":"ramaphosa-announces-cabinet-reshuffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/865094\/ramaphosa-announces-cabinet-reshuffle\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramaphosa announces cabinet reshuffle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced changes to the executive, largely implementing changes requested by the Democratic Alliance, and bringing a disgraced former minister back into cabinet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The president said the changes to DA positions were made in consultation with the DA as a member of the Government of National Unity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These will affect the Ministries of Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Trade, Industry and Competition, Electricity and Energy, Higher Education, and Water and Sanitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following changes have been made to ministerial portfolios:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Willem Aucamp as the Minister of Agriculture,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>David Maynier as Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The following changes have been made to deputy minister posts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>John Steenhuisen as Deputy Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Alexandra Abrahams as Deputy Minister of Electricity and Energy,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jack Bloom as Deputy Minister of Water and Sanitation,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yusuf Cassim as Deputy Minister of Higher Education.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to shuffling DA representation around in the national executive, Ramaphosa also appointed Dina Pule as the Minister of Social Development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The position was left vacant after former minister Sisisi Tolashe was dismissed by the president in May, following a series of scandals and damning allegations against her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pule has been the Deputy Secretary-General of the ANC Women&#8217;s League since July 2023 and was earmarked for the role in earlier reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notably, Pule&#8217;s return to the national executive has its own controversial history, after she, too, was fired following findings of unethical conduct in 2012\/13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pule had previously served as the Minister of Communications under Jacob Zuma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She was appointed to that role in October 2011, having served as Deputy Minister of the Presidency for Performance Monitoring and Evaluation between 2010 and 2011. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Between 2009 and 2010, she served as Deputy Minister of Communications. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, during her time leading the then-Communications Department, she had been&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/tag\/dina-pule\">embroiled in a number of scandals<\/a>, which culminated in a Public Protector investigation into allegations against her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The scandal centred on her romantic relationship with a businessman who had benefited financially from his proximity to her. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pule had denied the relationship and attempted to conceal it, but was eventually forced to admit to it after the investigations dove into the scandal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2013, former&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/92785-dina-pule-is-a-liar-must-apologise-report.html\">Public Protector Thuli Madonsela ordered Pule<\/a>&nbsp;to apologise to Parliament for \u201cpersistently lying and unethical conduct\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mg.co.za\/article\/2013-08-20-dina-pule-i-made-a-mistake-im-sorry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pule was also found guilty<\/a>&nbsp;by the Parliamentary Ethics and Members\u2019 Interests Committee of violating the Executive Members\u2019 Ethics Code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She was ultimately reprimanded and suspended by Parliament, in addition to being sacked by Zuma in a 2013 cabinet reshuffle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After more than a decade out of frontline politics and the National Assembly, Pule returned to Parliament as an ANC MP following the 2024 national elections. She has now returned to cabinet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ramaphosa wished all the incoming Ministers and Deputy Ministers well in their new roles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Dina-Pule.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Dina-Pule-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-865104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Dina-Pule-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Dina-Pule-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Dina-Pule-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Dina-Pule.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">New Social Development Minister, Dina Pule<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced changes to the executive, largely implementing changes requested by the DA, and bringing a disgraced former minister back into cabinet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":817703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[25691,12501],"class_list":["post-865094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-cabinet-reshuffle","tag-ramaphosa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865094","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=865094"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":865105,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865094\/revisions\/865105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}