Deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe was sworn in by President Jacob Zuma at the Presidential Guesthouse in Pretoria on Monday.
He was congratulated by outgoing finance minister Trevor Manuel, who has been appointed as a Minister in the Presidency in Zuma's administration.
Manuel will head up government's new planning commission.
The swearing-in of the ministers was affirmed by Constitutional Court judges, Chief Justice Pius Langa, Justice Dikgang Moseneke and Justice Kate O'Regan.
After former health minister Barbara Hogan had been sworn in as Minister of Public Enterprise, she was hugged by Zuma and Motlanthe.Former education minister Naledi Pandor has been appointed the country's new Science and Technology Minister, taking over from Azanian People's Organisation leader Mosibudi Mangena.
"I am very honoured as usual to be deployed and appointed to a government position by our president. It's a great privilege, I am still getting used to it," Pandor, one of the early arrivals, told the South African Press Association.
Source: Mail & Guardian
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