President Jacob Zuma has announced his new Cabinet, appointing the country's first black finance minister.
Nhlanhla Nene replaces Pravin Gordhan, who has been moved to cooperative governance.
As expected, Cyril Ramaphosa will be the deputy president.
Zuma, in making the announcement, created several new ministries.
"We have established a ministry of telecommunications and postal services," Zuma said while making his Cabinet announcement.
"Our country has a fast growing telecommunications sector which in 2012 was estimated at being worth R180bn."
The aim of the new ministry was to get more value out of the telecommunications sector, he said. READ MORE
Source: www.news24.com
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