After the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority in the April 2009 general election, Jacob Zuma was inaugurated as President of South Africa on 9 May 2009 and announced his cabinet the following day.

[6] On 12 June 2012, Zuma announced his third reshuffle, occasioned by the death of Minister Roy Padayachie.

[9] In a final reshuffle on 9 July 2013, Zuma fired three ministers: Dina Pule, Tokyo Sexwale, and Richard Baloyi.

[10] They were replaced by Yunus Carrim, Connie September, and Lech Tsenoli, respectively, and two other ministers – Ben Martins and Dipuo Peters – swopped portfolios.

[4] In October 2011 he decreed that the Ministry of Public Works would no longer have a deputy minister but that the Ministry of Women, Youth, Children and People with Disabilities would have one,[5] though a new Deputy Minister of Public Works was ultimately appointed in June 2012.