Minister of Employment and Labour
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South Africa Minister of Employment and Labour | |
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since 30 May 2019 | |
Department of Labour | |
Style | The Honourable |
Appointer | Cyril Ramaphosa |
Inaugural holder | Frederic Creswell |
Formation | 19 June 1924 |
Deputy | Boitumelo Moloi |
Salary | R2,211,937[1] |
Website | Department of Labour |
The Minister of Employment and Labour is a Minister in the Cabinet of South Africa.
List of Past Ministers
[edit]Minister of Labour, 1924-1935
[edit]Name | Portrait | Term | Party | Prime Minister | |||
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Frederic Creswell | 19 June 1924 | 1925 | LP | J.B.M. Hertzog (I) (II) | |||
Thomas Boydell | 1925 | 14 June 1929 | |||||
Frederic Creswell | 14 June 1929 | 17 May 1933 | |||||
Adriaan Fourie | 17 May 1933 | 1935 | UP | J.B.M. Hertzog (III) |
Minister of Labour and Social Welfare, 1935-1937
[edit]Name | Portrait | Term | Party | Prime Minister | |||
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Adriaan Fourie | 1935 | 1936 | UP | J.B.M. Hertzog (III) | |||
J.F.H. Hofmeyer | 1936 | 1937 |
Minister of Labour, 1937-1976
[edit]Name | Portrait | Term | Party | Prime Minister | |||
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J.F.H. Hofmeyer | 1937 | 18 May 1938 | UP | J.B.M. Hertzog (III) (IV) | |||
Harry Lawrence | 18 May 1938 | 5 September 1939 | |||||
Walter Madeley | 5 September 1939 | 1945 | LP | Jan Smuts (takes office after Hertzog resignation) | |||
Jan Smuts (III) | |||||||
C.F. Steyn | 1945 | 26 May 1948 | UP | ||||
B.J. Schoeman | 26 May 1948 | 1954 | HNP | D.F. Malan (I) (II) | |||
Jan de Klerk | 1954 | 8 October 1961 | |||||
NP | Strydom (I) | ||||||
Hendrik Verwoerd (takes office after Strydom's death) | |||||||
A.E. Trollip | 8 October 1961 | 30 March 1966 | NP | Hendrik Verwoerd (I) (II) | |||
Marais Viljoen | 30 March 1966 | 1976 | |||||
B.J. Vorster (takes office after Verwoerd's death) | |||||||
NP | B.J. Vorster (I) (II) |
Minister of Manpower Utilisation, 1976-1994
[edit]Name | Portrait | Term | Party | President (since 1984) | |||
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S.P. Botha | 1976 | 15 November 1983 | NP | B.J. Vorster (II) (III) | |||
NP | P.W. Botha (I) (II) | ||||||
Unknown | 15 November 1983 | 6 September 1989 | |||||
Gene Louw | 6 September 1989 | 1992 | NP | F.W. de Klerk (I) | |||
Unknown | 1992 | 10 May 1994 |
Minister of Labour, 1994-2019
[edit]Name | Portrait | Term | Party | President | |||
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Tito Mboweni | 10 May 1994 | 14 June 1999 | ANC | Nelson Mandela (Government of National Unity) | |||
Membathisi Mdladlana | 14 June 1999 | 30 October 2010 | ANC | Thabo Mbeki (I) (II) | |||
Kgalema Motlanthe (takes office after Mbeki resigns) | |||||||
Jacob Zuma (I) (II) Cyril Ramaphosa (I) | |||||||
Mildred Oliphant | 1 November 2010 | 29 May 2019 | ANC |
Minister of Employment of Labour, 2019-present
[edit]Name | Portrait | Term | Party | President | |||
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Thulas Nxesi | 30 May 2019 | 19 June 2024 | ANC | Cyril Ramaphosa (II) |
References
[edit]- ^ "Determination salaries and allowances of the Deputy President, Ministers and Deputy Ministers", Proclamation No. 3 of 2015.