The Democratic Alliance (DA), South Africa’s second-biggest party and a member of the nation’s ruling coalition, has appointed strategist Ryan Coetzee to oversee its ministers who are part of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s cabinet.
“Ryan Coetzee will start work on Monday and he will help manage the ministerial caucus,” Geordin Hill-Lewis, who was elected as DA leader last weekend, said in an interview in Saldanha, north of Cape Town on Saturday.
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Coetzee previously served as the DA’s chief executive officer and election campaign manager, and as an advisor to former UK deputy prime minister Nick Clegg.
The DA joined the government after the 2024 elections failed to produce an outright winner, and was assigned six cabinet posts.
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Unlike his predecessor John Steenhuisen, Hill-Lewis doesn’t intend joining the executive and will instead seek a second term as Mayor of Cape Town.
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He says Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber “will be my eyes and ears in cabinet”.
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