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00:00Now South Africa started its first week with the new cabinet that's been painfully thrashed out
00:05after the ANC lost its parliamentary majority in May's elections. The coalition that it was
00:10forced to form with nine other parties has made haggling over government portfolios tougher than
00:15ever and Wenzel with more. South Africa finally has a new government. A big surprise and a move
00:26that has received a lot of criticism is that the cabinet has grown from a previous 30 ministers
00:31and their deputies to 32 ministers and 43 deputy ministers. This is a move backward for the
00:37president who during his earlier tenure had made it clear he wanted to shrink parliament to shrink
00:42expenses. Announcing a cabinet heavy with ANC members with the former opposition DA holding
00:47six ministerial posts and six deputy ministers, President Sol Ramaphosa said the only way they
00:53could make the parliament inclusive for the GNU and its members was to add posts. Many are still
00:58unhappy at the inclusion of the DA seen as a white party which favours business included in the GNU.
01:06But analysts point out that some of the deputy ministers appear to contain a watchdog component
01:12as most ministers are ANC but where you have a DA minister like Minister of Communications and
01:18Digital Technology Solly Malatzi, his deputy is the ANC's Monili Gungubele, while the DA's
01:23Leon Schreiber is Minister of Home Affairs, his deputy the ANC's Njobulo Nzuzu to mention a few
01:29of these pairings. Eyebrows have also shot up over the appointment of the PA's founder Gaten McKenzie
01:35as Minister of Sport Arts and Culture with many citizens and analysts alike asking how the former
01:41gangster is going to handle such a tricky portfolio.