7th Administration | Political analysis of the newly announced GNU cabinet: Dr Sithembile Mbete

After more than a month since South Africa held its national and provincial elections on the 29th of May, President Ramaphosa finally announced his new Government of National Unity Cabinet Sunday night.
For the past weeks, political parties taking part in the Government of National Unity have been behind closed doors negotiating in what some have described as the most difficult process in our country's 30 years of democracy.
The Cabinet appointments will also pave the way for the 7th administration and provincial legislature governments to begin their work for the next five years.
To talk more about the new Cabinet and what this entails for South Africans and political parties, we are joined by Dr Sithembile Mbete, Senior Lecturer at the University of Pretoria.
For more news, visit sabcnews.com and #SABCNews on all Social Media platforms.

[@mohlatlegomaloba4904]

I appreciate the analysis by Dr Mbete, always worth listening to her in-depth knowledge of our politics and society based on what various political parties represents and how they've projected themselves during election campaigns, your the best DR Mbete❤🇿🇦

[@siyathembasiazmatshaya7074]

Holomisa should have been minister of defence,not esasimawumawu singu Motsegs,gey muhle lo Dr Sithembele.

[@MzamoAdoons372]

Lack of talent in the ANC, an old granny who can hardly walk as a defence minister😂😂😂

[@mandisileqhosho7854]

Yho its still my shock till today. How can an old female without any army experience be in this position. This really shows lack of vision and seriousness of the ANC and its President. Why they don't tell this lady be allowed be just a MP if they really want her to earn money!!! it shows that they careless about the citizen of RSA.

[@MzamoAdoons372]

@@mandisileqhosho7854 and as blacks we are expected to be excited🙊🙊

[@siyathembasiazmatshaya7074]

We went Wrong Police (Mchunu instead if McKenzie) Went wrong Defence Motsega instead of Holomisa

[@idrussosman1346]

South Africans have spoken and let's have experience of this GNU.

[@Annahmhlongo0839]

Minister of defense 😢, we are not safe

[@nomalungelongcete5875]

Not at all 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@HolloMatlala1]

Lol these ones don't want to learn from "recent" MK massacre hai,🙄🙄🙄🙄.#ArmedWing

[@ThabsileLeshoro]

What a joke 😂

[@khathi92]

Should have just gave whole powers to Holomisa,

[@tsekomofokeng182]

Schools are OUt or is it Break time? She left destructions in Schools. Government schools pupils can't write nor read for a meaning

[@ZuzumziNgubo]

Ama deputy amabini awokwenzani singasebenzi kodwa ey.

[@roshneeshunmagum1945]

Are we safe??? Magogo for defense. Can she protect herself 😂😂😂

[@Geezweez788]

I hope she's just a face and it's Holomisa who will do the work

[@Kush-Kemet]

Biden is running America, or you only ask when it's an AFRIKAN, your self hate sickening...

[@RaineJizzle]

​@Geezweez788 We can't afford to pay one person to be the face and another person to do the work, though.

[@FlorenceMotau-ke8gx]

Hai she can't even lift her feet when walking, will be just sliding to the bank 😢

[@MzamoAdoons372]

​@@RaineJizzleBut this is how the ANC has been operating all along

[@ZuzumziNgubo]

Kanti ayoshintshwa nin lamakhehla nabogogo kesibone ubuso obusha

[@davidmasupa7642]

When you decide to organize the youth to vote in their numbers and vote for a youthful parliament. If you are just an arm chair critic,it will always remain like this.

[@diatilenthoba8262]

Senzo mchunu replacing Bheki Cele🙊🙊🙊haai wrong move, Gayton is sports 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Ous Angie in defence 🤣🤣🤣🤣 joweee

[@nomalungelongcete5875]

Yhooo yidrama nje 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😅😅😅😅😅😅

[@SLedwaba-xu4ph]

Mr MCHUNU will deal with the challenges in KZN and the likes,especially with the ongoing killings in that province

[@HolloMatlala1]

Lol these ones don't want to learn from "recent" MK massacre hai,🙄🙄🙄🙄.#ArmedWing

[@maropinini1262]

Bloated Cabinet/Executive but mixed nicely, now we will judge their abilities and performance individually. Defence Ministry is going to be interesting and hope the DA in Education will sort out the teacher-student ratio in our Kasi/Township and Rural Schools and change this current curriculum to be economically outcomes based. For example introduction of Robotics, I.T. Hardware Assembly/Repairs and Coding which will require new resources infrastructure for schools. Hope Gayton McKenzie doesn't party too much in this portfolio 😂🇿🇦🇿🇦

[@anticorrup-g5o]

I hope Gwaribe introduces Fine Arts into the curriculum with art, reading, writing, creative thinking that without a doubt have been known to bolster all other aspects of study. I know, I've lived it.

[@chriserasmus]

It was just musical chairs. Same capacity capabilities under new administration. Same pudding different sauce.

[@EstherNthupi]

WHY the bright smile 😅 Sakile ? It must be great News😮

[@DricksMuzi]

We also see the disappointment in the faces of most journalist and interviewer😂 it's definitely not wat you'll expect people must just go and play with cows and watch sports nothing significant after all the noise . As a far leftist of note the EFF mkp and atm did well not to join. Checkmate 😂😂

[@anticorrup-g5o]

That was disingenuous of them to exclude themselves based on race and tribalism and bad advice from a disgraced former president and disgraced high court judge. Let's move on to embrace ALL South Africans.

[@yourlocalit1701]

Well atleast basic education will get better.

[@Tinker8531]

She is Black and will care so there is hope, if she was like the MEC of education in WC, that one did nor care about Non White children. Schools are overcrowded, kids get placed far away from home, its a hot mess.

[@yourlocalit1701]

@@Tinker8531 wait till you here about other provinces like Limpopo.

[@CrazyAi166]

I just love this lady guys man❤❤❤🇿🇦🇿🇦yorh.. and that other Coloured woman..yaw just facts

[@ShawnRademeyer]

Looks like the DA compromised too much, and the ANC basically rerained all the power. 😕

[@Schaemia]

There was no choice. It was either compromise or get nothing. I hope they make a difference in the ministries they are in. Prove the haters wrong.

[@vernongoldstone1956]

Thabo Besters doctor girlfriend would of made a better defence minister

[@sherilaattoe6510]

😂😂😂😂

[@ossborn100]

THE SPOKE PERSON OF RAMAPHOSA

[@nomalungelongcete5875]

What about him?

[@tsekomofokeng182]

Ramaphosa has appointed DA as experiments

[@tsekomofokeng182]

Ramaphosa has appointed DA as experiments

[@farmthreads5679]

Siviwe is a strong woman.

[@maxwellkanjala5030]

I am happy that Ifp has a Depity President seat.

[@davidopsina3871]

The world's richest country has 26 cabinet positions. The world's largest banana republic, South Africa, has 75. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@kphosh]

I just love Dr Sthe she is beaty and brains.

[@RennyMonama]

McKenzie for sports why. He needed home affairs. I removed motswaledi for what. Nonsense. Closing real South Africans mouth

[@WarrenLouder]

John Steunheisen position totally wasted and what does he know about agriculture ? WHAT A JOKE !!

[@Poppielangkous-p8g]

We are a kakistocracy!

[@ThibushiSimon]

Stealing thing of the past employing your friends and family also

[@nosiphiwomeriam7201]

I'm happy we have DA for home affairs mybe things will change coz service has been poor my whole life

[@Tinker8531]

MORE CHEAP LABOUR COMING THROUGH THE DOOR.

[@lawrencehenshaw7491]

How come the ANC doesn't have only it share not like it is. The Minerals, Finance and Business should be in other Parties hands because the ANC has had 30 years.

[@thembimaseko9600]

Sakina loves the cabinet and Mbethe. At least Ramaphosa took us back to Apartheid unlike Mugabe took his people to poverty.

[@heartsillebenjamin5196]

You flying colors in marching and everybody else on the majority of everything in your own country in a predominantly black continent

[@mtetelelimrwetyana2002]

Tenderprenuers are in trouble

[@chriserasmus]

There is an old story about a teacher ask a scholar to make a sentence with defence, detail and defeat. His reply was " The horse jump over defence, first defeat then detail "

[@lewisnookadu9584]

Why has president still not used his own brains appointment of Angie as minister of defense what a joke she failed in education and now we are in serious danger, we are going to be let without a defense.

[@heartsillebenjamin5196]

I don't know how y'all can watch out for the mirror

[@aarongunnz9513]

Ramadollar insulted DA

[@JabulaniMathuthu]

Ramadola and DA are 2 sides of the same coin.

[@raymondmashile5204]

Why you guys keep on saying we are not safe? i mean safe from what exactly cos minister he/she doesn't carry a gun she's just there for instructions male or female is ok you should be more concerned about soldiers and police men and women who are not exercising with very big stomach and bumps

[@decepticon8000]

It's like they think she will be giving military drills 😂😂😂

[@vuyanitheo971]

Is this a sick joke

[@ZuzumziNgubo]

As long isonka sizobuyela ko 10 if asiphindeli lapho kusezoshuba ke.

[@acejada976]

Naledi Pandor was such a great Minister she could have been SA"s next president. And where is Bheki Cele? He was very visible and involved in the SAPS.

[@dipolelosebopela9700]

and DA is hungry to lead😂😂😂😂😂

[@nomalungelongcete5875]

Ewe

[@dilatlhwanesenne4911]

They are eager to work and take south africa forward. This is not power hungry

[@ZaidKhan-wp7ix]

And your people are hungry to steal 😊

[@decepticon8000]

Pha kwamsoon. 😂

[@nomalungelongcete5875]

@@dilatlhwanesenne4911 Why fighting for positions? They said they are not for positions

[@EnefaahaElizabethGeorgew-ep3gb]

PLEASE, THE COMMITTEES TOO WOULD BE BRILLIANT TO VIEW FOR JUST BALANCING CREDIBILITY. CHEERS

[@MatikiMcunu]

That doctor can't tell the difference between left and right, just wondering a doctor of what?

[@Kush-Kemet]

And they made John Stenezein a Minister with just a matric, talk about standards

[@katenkosi1389]

The government confusion multiparty moonshot in the house

[@tsekomofokeng182]

Ramaphosa has appointed DA as experiments

[@paulinegabriel3660]

😮

[@ThulaniGumede-gs7lp]

Ramapalar give our enemy the power to distroye ANC i believe that african National Congress not coming back 2029 trust me

[@ZaidKhan-wp7ix]

Not the case, Grow up

[@shelby6]

There is no enemy, there is currently corruption. That is the enemy.

[@Tinker8531]

ANC is destroying itself with yet again appointing useless ANC cadres in cabinet. No hope that his useless lot can do the job well.

[@MKRushy]

Hi South Africans

[@MKRushy]

More deputies in gnu i still not trusting the anc or the president himself now

[@Scar_7.62]

The anc voters and many black people in general are breathing a sigh of relief . Last week they were panicking, afraid the gravy train had finally come to a stop , but sadly it's business as usual 😢

[@Schaemia]

They literally expanded cabinet unnecessarily so ANC ministers could eat as usual 😂

[@Tinker8531]

Let them enjoy, if unemployment and high rate of crime continues, they will pay all by themselves because they the ANC had those portfolio's.

[@RennyMonama]

Jys reg

[@kosiekoos9408]

Steenhuisen inherited Agriculture from big daddy but not given the toolshed.

[@tsekomofokeng182]

Ramaphosa appointed him as experiment.

[@Tinker8531]

Agriculture is a safe portfolio, unless we have a natural disaster which affects food production.

[@Tinker8531]

@@tsekomofokeng182 Ramaphosa is a bad experiment himself. He refuses to put country over party, brought back absolutely useless people again. Now South Africans can see the ANC is incapable of change. It will be curtains for them in 2026.

[@floatpoint1050]

@@Tinker8531 indeed it is. I would think out of all the portfolios on the table the DA leader would have had first pick and seeing as a smart leader wouldn't pick a troubled portfolio and be paraded as the cause of the failure's in that portfolio, he chose agriculture

[@magezieric6254]

Nice smile sisi

[@JohnVianneyPatron]

No of Indians in cabinet: 0. If IndoSAfricans didnt know they aren't wanted in SA there can be absolutely no doubt now!

[@stoic7810]

if there are a enough, and they voted, then they would have representation.

[@Kush-Kemet]

How many AFRIKANS in an Indian cabinet led by Modi

[@QSynenergy]

Indians, where ever they are on the planet, automatically sides with whites. That being the fact, we make no distinction between the two. That being the fact, there is no need for Indians to be in the cabinet since the whites are already there.

[@ExclusiveDuo]

They voted from DA so white people are representing them

[@NormanCollins-rd7yz]

Ja the Cowboys shot them all

[@lukks289]

Gayton for Home Affairs

[@MzamoAdoons372]

The DA should not have entered into this arrangement, its just bad.

[@dipolelosebopela9700]

we just done favour for them 😂😂the doors are open

[@anticorrup-g5o]

Why??? We need to work together for our children. I'm not a DA supporter, but we need to bite the bullet and find each other.

[@nomalungelongcete5875]

​@@dipolelosebopela9700 They also want the gravy train 😂

[@dilatlhwanesenne4911]

​@@dipolelosebopela9700Thank to our president, he could see that the country is going down the drain because of people who are dom like yiu😂

[@Kush-Kemet]

Agree, instead DA should have left AFRIKA and go back to Europe

[@MatikiMcunu]

Yes women power but that doctor must not be invited going further by SABC

[@Adjudicator246]

Why not

[@tsekomofokeng182]

Why not?

[@floatpoint1050]

Luckily, you dont have any authority on that decision