{"id":965544,"date":"2024-07-13T09:53:33","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T09:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=965544"},"modified":"2024-07-13T09:53:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T09:53:33","slug":"first-cabinet-lekgotla-of-gnu-gets-under-way-in-pretoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/first-cabinet-lekgotla-of-gnu-gets-under-way-in-pretoria\/","title":{"rendered":"First Cabinet Lekgotla of GNU gets under way in Pretoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/president-ramaphosa-to-chair-first-gnu-cabinet-lekgotla-in-pretoria\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The first Cabinet Lekgotla of the Government of National Unity (GNU)<\/a> gets under way at the Sefako Makgatho Presidential Guesthouse in Pretoria on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The two-day meeting brings together ministers and their deputies, premiers, directors-general and representatives from the South African Local Government Association (SALGA).<\/p>\n<p>For the first time since 1994, the executive comprises representatives from 11 political parties.<\/p>\n<p>President Cyril Ramaphosa says members of the GNU are hard at work to better the lives of South Africans.\u00a0Ramaphosa spoke to SABC News about the readiness of the Lekgotla.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The GNU is up and alive and working. We are working very hard and people are contributing everyone is talking. So it&#8217;s great it&#8217;s a good start to the GNU.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>GNU| President Ramaphosa holds first Cabinet Lekgotla in Pretoria:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0lIXanLrun4?si=-ngqTORaIcdh0vsF\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The new cabinet, composed under the National Government of Unity (GNU) consists of a total of 32 ministers and 43 deputy ministers.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>President Cyril Ramaphosa&#8217;s new post-election multi-party National Executive:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; height: 0; padding-top: 250.0000%; padding-bottom: 0; box-shadow: 0 2px 8px 0 rgba(63,69,81,0.16); margin-top: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.9em; overflow: hidden; border-radius: 8px; will-change: transform;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; width: 100%; height: 100%; top: 0; left: 0; border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.canva.com\/design\/DAGIkOmow10\/TIbw0-co2QQkyGUtKbN5JQ\/view?embed\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">  <\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canva.com\/design\/DAGIkOmow10\/TIbw0-co2QQkyGUtKbN5JQ\/view?utm_content=DAGIkOmow10&amp;utm_campaign=designshare&amp;utm_medium=embeds&amp;utm_source=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SA cabinet<\/a> by SABC Digital News<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U-YqzX6YFtU?si=HF38o_sU27-8moRg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time since 1994, the executive comprises representatives from 11 political parties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":965545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}