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on 24 May 2014, he announced that the ministry would henceforth have two deputy ministers instead of one, in recognition of the importance of rural areas and particularly the former
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on 30 June 2024, Ramaphosa reversed the merger, appointing an independent Minister of Land Reform and Rural Development to serve alongside a Minister of Agriculture.
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appointed the first Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform in May 2009, land affairs were conjoined with agriculture under the
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announced that the land affairs portfolio would be merged with the agriculture portfolio, as it had been before Zuma's tenure. The
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on 10 May 2009, he reversed Mandela's merger. The agriculture portfolio was conjoined with forestry and fisheries under the
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in May 1994. However, in a cabinet reshuffle in May 1996, Mandela announced that the portfolio would be subsumed under the
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The same portfolio was previously the provenance of the
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in May 2009, though it was subsequently merged with the
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Flag of South Africa
Mzwanele Nyhontso
Department of Land Reform and Rural Development
Style
The Honourable
President of South Africa
Gugile Nkwinti
Stan Mathabatha
www.dalrrd.gov.za
minister
Cabinet of South Africa
agriculture
Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Jacob Zuma
Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs
Department of Land Reform and Rural Development
Mzwanele Nyhontso
apartheid
Derek Hanekom
Nelson Mandela
cabinet
Ministry of Agriculture
Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs
Jacob Zuma
his first cabinet
Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
rural development
land reform in South Africa
his second-term cabinet

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