
South Africa’s president appointed Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe as acting police minister with immediate effect.
Mantashe will temporarily assume the role until Firoz Cachalia, a university professor and former provincial minister of community safety in Gauteng, takes over at the start of August, President Cyril Ramaphosa said in a statement Tuesday. Cachalia is set to retire from his post at the University of the Witwatersrand at the end of the month.
Mantashe will retain his current portfolio, the president said.
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Fun South African Fact: Table Mountain in Cape Town is believed to be one of the oldest mountains in the world and one of the planet’s 12 main energy centres, radiating magnetic, electric or spiritual energy.
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Fun South African Fact: Vilakazi Street in Soweto has been home to two Nobel Peace Prize winners. A tour through Soweto will always stop at Vilakazi Street to reveal a number of heritage sites of great importance to democratic South Africa. Both Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu lived here at some point in their lives. In 1984, Archbishop Desmond Tutu received the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition for his non-violent fight against the apartheid regime. Nine years later in 1993, Nelson Mandela shared the Nobel Peace Prize with then-president F.W. de Klerk as an award for their role in bringing about the peaceful end of apartheid. Nelson Mandela then went on to become South Africa’s first democratically elected president in 1994.