{"id":277536,"date":"2019-05-30T10:07:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T14:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMicWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmFmcmljYW5ld3MuY29tLzIwMTkvMDUvMzAvc291dGgtYWZyaWNhLWpvaW5zLWV0aGlvcGlhLXJ3YW5kYS1pbi1zbWFsbC1jbHViLW9mLWdlbmRlci1wYXJpdHktY2FiaW5ldHMv0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-24T11:28:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:28:39","slug":"africanews-said-south-africa-joined-ethiopia-and-rwanda-in-gender-parity-cabinets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277536","title":{"rendered":"Africanews said South Africa joined Ethiopia and Rwanda in gender-parity cabinets"},"content":{"rendered":"

In May 2019 Africanews reported that South Africa\u2019s new cabinet lineup placed it with Ethiopia and Rwanda in a small group of African governments claiming gender parity in top posts.<\/p>\n\"Africanews\n

Abiy Ahmed\u2019s early appointments of women to senior ministries had already become a talking point in African politics coverage, and Pretoria\u2019s move refreshed that comparison.<\/p>\n

Parity claims do not settle deeper power questions, but they remain a dated marker of how reformers marketed inclusive cabinets.<\/p>\n

Kept as gender and politics archive, the Africanews brief records the May 2019 gender-parity cabinet club narrative.<\/p>\n

Sources:<\/strong> Africanews<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

South Africa joins Ethiopia, Rwanda in small club of gender-parity cabinets  Africanews EnglishRamaphosa who hailed the cabinet for making history as the first gender-parity cabinet in the country’s history, joins Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed and Rw…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":271272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Ethiopian-opposition-parties-announce-plan-to-merge.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1aco","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277536"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754973,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277536\/revisions\/754973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}