Second Cabinet of Cyril Ramaphosa
The Second Cabinet of Cyril Ramaphosa was formed on 29 May 2019 after President Ramaphosa was inaugurated for his first full-term as President of South Africa following the African National Congress's victory in the 2019 South African general election. The newly appointed ministers were inaugurated the next day by Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng at the Sefako Makgatho Presidential Guest House in Pretoria. The cabinet is the third cabinet in Africa to be made completely gender-equal in its composition and the first gender-equal cabinet in South African history. Amalgamations. The new cabinet  was reduced from 36 to 28 portfolios through the amalgamation of several departments. 2021 Reshuffle. Ramaphosa reshuffled the cabinet in August 2021. 2022 motion of no confidence. During his speech at the Debate on the State of the National Address on 14 February 2022, the Leader of the Opposition and the Leader of the Democratic Alliance, John Steenhuisen announced that he had tabled a motion of no confidence in the Cabinet in terms of Section 102(1) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, excluding President Ramaphosa. On 10 March 2022, National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula announced  that the debate and vote on the motion of no confidence against the Cabinet would be held on 30 March 2022. The DA requested that the vote be held by secret ballot, but Mapisa-Nqakula rejected their request on 25 March. On 30 March 2022, the motion was defeated in the National Assembly by a margin of 100 votes (131 in favour, 231 opposed and one abstention). The DA, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), the United Democratic Movement (UDM), the African Transformation Movement (ATM) and the Freedom Front Plus (FF Plus) voted in favour of the motion, while the ANC , the National Freedom Party (NFP), the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), Good, and Al Jama-ah voted against it. This was the first time in South African history that a motion of no confidence against the cabinet occurred.