Lesbian South African MP named to country’s new Cabinet
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday appointed lesbian MP Steve Letsike to his Cabinet. Letsike, founder of Access Chapter 2, a South African advocacy group who is a member of the African National Congress that Ramaphosa leads, will be the country’s deputy minister of women, youth, and people with disabilities.
Letsike won a seat in the South African National Assembly in national and provincial elections that took place on May 29. The ANC lost its parliamentary majority that it had had since Nelson Mandela in 1994 won the South African presidency in the country’s first post-apartheid elections.
Ramaphosa on Sunday announced Letsike and other new Cabinet members after the ANC and nine other parties agreed to form a National Unity Government.
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