Second Cabinet of Thabo Mbeki

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Second Mbeki Cabinet
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3rd Cabinet of the Republic of South Africa
(since the 1994 elections)
2004–2008
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President Mbeki in 2008
Date formed29 April 2004 (2004-04-29)
Date dissolved24 September 2008 (2008-09-24)
(4 years, 4 months and 26 days)
People and organisations
President Thabo Mbeki
Deputy President
No. of ministers28 ministers
Member party
Status in legislature Majority
Opposition party Democratic Alliance
Opposition leader
History
Election 2004 election
Legislature term Third Parliament
Predecessor Mbeki I
Successor Motlanthe

The second cabinet of Thabo Mbeki was the cabinet of the government of South Africa from 29 April 2004 until 24 September 2008. It was in office for the duration of Mbeki's second term in the South African Presidency, which lasted between the 2004 general election and Mbeki's resignation from office on 24 September 2008.

Contents

The cabinet comprised 28 ministers and was reshuffled twice, once in June 2005 and once in May 2006. In addition to members of Mbeki's African National Congress, it included one minister apiece from the New National Party and Azanian People's Organisation.

Cabinet

After the April 2004 general election, Thabo Mbeki was elected to his second and final term as President of South Africa. On 28 April 2004, he announced his new cabinet. [1] Although his political party, the African National Congress (ANC), had won a supermajority in the election, he invited two opposition parties – the New National Party (NNP) and the Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) – to fill a cabinet post apiece. [2] [3] The Inkatha Freedom Party was not represented. [4]

About half of the appointments were unchanged from Mbeki's outgoing first-term cabinet, and only six new ministers were appointed. [1] The only major organisational change was Mbeki's decision to sever the Ministry of Arts and Culture from the Ministry of Science and Technology; until then they had been unified as the Ministry of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology. The 28-member cabinet included 12 women, an increase from Mbeki's first term. [1]

Reshuffles

The most dramatic change in the cabinet's composition occurred on 14 June 2005, when Mbeki announced his decision to remove Jacob Zuma from the Deputy Presidency. [5] The sacking was the result of developments in ongoing corruption allegations against Zuma. [6] Mbeki appointed Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka to succeed Zuma as the Deputy President, and in turn appointed Lindiwe Hendricks to succeed Mlambo-Ngcuka as Minister of Minerals and Energy. [7]

The Minister of Public Works, Stella Sigcau, died less than a year later. In the aftermath of her death, on 22 May 2006, Mbeki announced his most extensive cabinet reshuffle, which resulted in the appointment to cabinet of Lulu Xingwana; it also affected three other ministers. [8] [9]

List of ministers

PostMinisterTermParty
President of South Africa His Excellency Thabo Mbeki 20042008 ANC
Deputy President of South Africa Her Excellency Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka 20052008 ANC
His Excellency Jacob Zuma 20042005 ANC
Minister in the Presidency The Hon. Essop Pahad 20042008 ANC
Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs The Hon. Lulu Xingwana 20062008 ANC
The Hon. Thoko Didiza 20042006 ANC
Minister of Arts and Culture The Hon. Pallo Jordan 20042008 ANC
Minister of Communications The Hon. Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri 20042008 ANC
Minister of Correctional Services The Hon. Ngconde Balfour 20042008 ANC
Minister of Defence The Hon. Mosiuoa Lekota 20042008 ANC
Minister of Education The Hon. Naledi Pandor 20042008 ANC
Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism The Hon. Marthinus van Schalkwyk 20042008 NNP
Minister of Finance The Hon. Trevor Manuel 20042008 ANC
Minister of Foreign Affairs The Hon. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma 20042008 ANC
Minister of Health The Hon. Manto Tshabalala-Msimang 20042008 ANC
Minister of Home Affairs The Hon. Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula 20042008 ANC
Minister of Housing The Hon. Lindiwe Sisulu 20042008 ANC
Minister of Intelligence The Hon. Ronnie Kasrils 20042008 ANC
Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development The Hon. Brigitte Mabandla 20042008 ANC
Minister of Labour The Hon. Shepherd Mdladlana 20042008 ANC
Minister of Minerals and Energy The Hon. Buyi Sonjica 20062008 ANC
The Hon. Lindiwe Hendricks 20052006 ANC
The Hon. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka 20042005 ANC
Minister of Provincial and Local Government The Hon. Sydney Mufamadi 20042008 ANC
Minister of Public Enterprises The Hon. Alec Erwin 20042008 ANC
Minister of Public Service and Administration The Hon. Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi 20042008 ANC
Minister of Public Works The Hon. Thoko Didiza 20062008 ANC
The Hon. Stella Sigcau 20042006 ANC
Minister of Safety and Security The Hon. Charles Nqakula 20042008 ANC
Minister of Science and Technology The Hon. Mosibudi Mangena 20042008 AZAPO
Minister of Social Development The Hon. Zola Skweyiya 20042008 ANC
Minister of Sport and Recreation The Hon. Arnold Stofile 20042008 ANC
Minister of Trade and Industry The Hon. Mandisi Mpahlwa 20042008 ANC
Minister of Transport The Hon. Jeff Radebe 20042008 ANC
Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry The Hon. Lindiwe Hendricks 20062008 ANC
The Hon. Buyi Sonjica 20042006 ANC

List of deputy ministers

Although deputy ministers are not members of the South African Cabinet, they are appointed by the president and assist cabinet ministers in the execution of their duties. At the same time as he announced his cabinet on 28 April 2004, Mbeki appointed 21 deputy ministers to serve below the cabinet. [3] [10] For the first time, he appointed two Deputy Ministers of Foreign Affairs to serve together. [11] Two of the deputy ministers, Gert Oosthuizen of the ANC and Ntopile Kganyago of the opposition United Democratic Movement, were not sworn in until 10 May 2004. [12]

In his minor reshuffle of June 2005, Mbeki appointed two Deputy Ministers of Trade and Industry, Rob Davies and Elizabeth Thabethe; until then there had been only one deputy minister, Lindiwe Hendricks, who was promoted to cabinet in the reshuffle. [7] After this, Mbeki made two further changes to his corps of deputy ministers. First, on 25 January 2006, he announced that Cheryl Gillwald would resign as Deputy Minister of Correctional Services at the end of the month; [13] he appointed Loretta Jacobus to replace her. [14] [15] Second, in a decision that sparked international controversy, [16] [17] he fired Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge as Deputy Minister of Health on 8 August 2007. [18]

Mbeki did not appoint deputy ministers in the Ministries of Housing, Intelligence, Labour, Public Service and Administration, Public Enterprises, Transport, or Water Affairs and Forestry, nor did he appoint a deputy minister in the Presidency. [11] In addition, when Lulu Xingwana was promoted to the cabinet in his May 2006 reshuffle, he did not appoint anybody to replace her as Deputy Minister of Minerals and Energy. [9] Likewise, after Madlala-Routledge was dismissed, the position of Deputy Minister of Health remained vacant until the end of the cabinet's term. [19]

PostMinisterTermParty
Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs The Hon. Dirk du Toit 20042008 ANC
Deputy Minister of Arts and Culture The Hon. Ntombazana Botha 20042008 ANC
Deputy Minister of Communications The Hon. Roy Padayachie 20042008 ANC
Deputy Minister of Correctional Services The Hon. Loretta Jacobus 20062008 ANC
The Hon. Cheryl Gillwald 20042006 ANC
Deputy Minister of Defence The Hon. Mluleki George 20042008 ANC
Deputy Minister of Education The Hon. Enver Surty 20042008 ANC
Deputy Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism The Hon. Joyce Mabudafhasi 20042008 ANC
Deputy Minister of Finance The Hon. Jabu Moleketi 20042008 ANC
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs 1stThe Hon. Aziz Pahad 20042008 ANC
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs 2ndThe Hon. Sue van der Merwe 20042008 ANC
Deputy Minister of Health Office vacant
The Hon. Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge 20042007 ANC
Deputy Minister of Home Affairs The Hon. Malusi Gigaba 20042008 ANC
Deputy Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development The Hon. Johnny de Lange 20042008 ANC
Deputy Minister of Minerals and Energy Office vacant
The Hon. Lulu Xingwana 20042006 ANC
Deputy Minister of Provincial and Local Government The Hon. Nomatyala Hangana 20042008 ANC
Deputy Minister of Public Works The Hon. Ntopile Kganyago 20042008 UDM
Deputy Minister of Safety and Security The Hon. Susan Shabangu 20042008 ANC
Deputy Minister of Science and Technology The Hon. Derek Hanekom 20042008 ANC
Deputy Minister of Social Development The Hon. Jean Benjamin 20042008 ANC
Deputy Minister of Sport and Recreation The Hon. Gert Oosthuizen 20042008 ANC
Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry 1stThe Hon. Rob Davies 20052008 ANC
The Hon. Lindiwe Hendricks 20042005 ANC
Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry 2ndThe Hon. Elizabeth Thabethe 20052008 ANC

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