Minister of Employment and Labour

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South Africa
Minister of Employment and Labour
List
  • 10 other official names:
  • Minister van Arbeid  (Afrikaans)
  • uNgqongqotjhe wezabaSebenzi  (Southern Ndebele)
  • UMphathiswa lezaBasebenzi  (Xhosa)
  • Indvuna Wezabasebenzi  (Zulu)
  • Indvuna Letetisebenti  (Swazi)
  • Tona ya Bašomi  (Northern Sotho)
  • Letona la tsa Mesebetsi  (Sotho)
  • Tona la Bodiri  (Tswana)
  • Holobye ya Vatirhi  (Tsonga)
  • Minisiṱa wa Mishumo  (Venda)
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Minister Thulas Nxesi.png
Incumbent
Thulas Nxesi

since 30 May 2019
Department of Labour
Style The Honourable
Appointer Cyril Ramaphosa
Inaugural holder Frederic Creswell
Formation19 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.

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List of Past Ministers

Minister of Labour, 1924-1935

NamePortraitTermPartyPrime Minister
Frederic Creswell Kolonel Cresswell.jpg 19 June 19241925 LP J.B.M. Hertzog
(I) (II)
Thomas Boydell Thomas Boydell.jpg 192514 June 1929
Frederic Creswell Kolonel Cresswell.jpg 14 June 192917 May 1933
Adriaan Fourie Adriaan Fourie.jpg 17 May 19331935 UP J.B.M. Hertzog
(III)

Minister of Labour and Social Welfare, 1935-1937

NamePortraitTermPartyPrime Minister
Adriaan Fourie Adriaan Fourie.jpg 19351936 UP J.B.M. Hertzog
(III)
J.F.H. Hofmeyer Hofmeyr.jpg 19361937

Minister of Labour, 1937-1976

NamePortraitTermPartyPrime Minister
J.F.H. Hofmeyer Hofmeyr.jpg 193718 May 1938 UP J.B.M. Hertzog
(III) (IV)
Harry Lawrence HG Lawrence.jpg 18 May 19385 September 1939
Walter Madeley Walter Madeley.jpg 5 September 19391945 LP Jan Smuts
(takes office after Hertzog resignation)
Jan Smuts
(III)
C.F. Steyn Colin Fraser Steyn.jpg 194526 May 1948 UP
B.J. Schoeman BJSchoeman.jpg 26 May 19481954 HNP D.F. Malan
(I) (II)
Jan de Klerk Jan de Klerk.jpg 19548 October 1961
NP Strydom
(I)
Hendrik Verwoerd
(takes office after Strydom's death)
A.E. Trollip AE Trollip.jpg 8 October 196130 March 1966 NP Hendrik Verwoerd
(I) (II)
Marais Viljoen Marais Viljoen.jpg 30 March 19661976
B.J. Vorster
(takes office after Verwoerd's death)
NP B.J. Vorster
(I) (II)

Minister of Manpower Utilisation, 1976-1994

NamePortraitTermPartyPresident
(since 1984)
S.P. Botha Fanie Botha.jpg 197615 November 1983 NP B.J. Vorster
(II) (III)
NP P.W. Botha
(I) (II)
Unknown15 November 19836 September 1989
Gene Louw 6 September 19891992 NP F.W. de Klerk
(I)
Unknown199210 May 1994

Minister of Labour, 1994-2019

NamePortraitTermPartyPresident
Tito Mboweni
Tito Mboweni - New Champions - World Economic Forum on Africa 2011.jpg
10 May 199414 June 1999 ANC Nelson Mandela
(Government of National Unity)
Membathisi Mdladlana 14 June 199930 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 201029 May 2019 ANC

Minister of Employment of Labour, 2019-present

NamePortraitTermPartyPresident
Thulas Nxesi Minister Thulas Nxesi.png 30 May 2019Present ANC Cyril Ramaphosa
(II)

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