Minister of Home Affairs (South Africa)

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South Africa
Minister of Home Affairs
Flag of South Africa.svg
Leon Schreiber 2024.jpg
Incumbent
Leon Schreiber
since 30 June 2024
Department of Home Affairs
Style The Honourable
Appointer Cyril Ramaphosa
Inaugural holder Jan Smuts
Formation31 May 1910
Deputy Njabulo Nzuza
Salary R2,211,937 [1]
Website Department of Home Affairs

The minister of home affairs is the minister in the Cabinet of South Africa with responsibility for the Department of Home Affairs. This position is currently filled by Leon Schreiber, who was appointed by President Cyril Ramaphosa on 30 June 2024. [2] The position includes responsibility for immigration, refugee and asylum policy, for the civil registry, and for the issuing of identity documents and passports.

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List of past ministers

Interior affairs, 1910–1984

NamePortraitTermPartyPrime Minister
Jan Smuts Jan Smuts circa 1915.jpg 19101912 SAP Louis Botha
(I) (II)
Abraham Fischer Abraham Fischer.jpg 19121913
Jan Smuts Jan Smuts circa 1915.jpg 19131919
Thomas Watt
Smuts Cabinet 1923.jpg
19191921
Jan Smuts
(takes office after Botha dies)
SAP Jan Smuts
(I) (II)
Patrick Duncan Patrick Duncan.jpg 19211924
D.F. Malan DFMalanPortret.jpg 19 June 192417 May 1933 NP J.B.M. Hertzog
(I) (II)
J.F.H Hofmeyer Hofmeyr.jpg 17 May 19331936 UP J.B.M. Hertzog
(III) (IV)
Richard Stuttaford Richard Stuttaford.jpg 19361939
Harry Lawrence HG Lawrence.jpg 193917 July 1943
Jan Smuts
(takes office after Hertzog resignation)
C.F. Clarkson
SA Cabinet 1939.jpg
17 July 194326 May 1948 UP Jan Smuts
(III)
T.E. Dönges Donges cropped.jpg 26 May 194816 April 1958 HNP D.F. Malan
(I) (II)
Tom Naudé Tom Naude 1962.jpg 16 April 19588 October 1961 NP Strydom
(I)
Hendrik Verwoerd
(takes office after Strydom's death)
Jan de Klerk Jan de Klerk.jpg 8 October 196130 March 1966 NP Hendrik Verwoerd
(I) (II)
P.K. le Roux PK le Roux.jpg 30 March 196610 April 1968
Lourens Muller Lourens Muller.JPG 10 April 19681970
B.J. Vorster
(takes office after Verwoerd's death)
Marais Viljoen Marais Viljoen.jpg 19701970 NP B.J. Vorster
(I) (II) (III)
Theo Gerdener Theo Gerdener.jpg 19701972
Connie Mulder Connie Mulder.jpg 19721978
Alwyn Schlebusch 19781980
Jan Christiaan Heunis 19801982
NP P.W. Botha
(I)
F.W. de Klerk Frederik Willem de Klerk, 1990.jpg 19821984

Internal affairs, 1984–1994

NamePortraitTermPartyPresident (since 1984)
F.W. de Klerk Frederik Willem de Klerk, 1990.jpg 19841985 NP P.W. Botha
(I) (II)
Stoffel Botha Stoffel Botha.jpg 19856 September 1989
Gene Louw 6 September 19891992 NP F.W. de Klerk
(I)
Louis Pienaar 19921993
Danie Schutte 199310 May 1994

Home affairs, 1994–present

NamePortraitTermPartyPresident
Mangosuthu Buthelezi Mangosuthu Buthelezi (1983).jpg 10 May 1994 – 13 July 2004 IFP Nelson Mandela

(Government of National Unity)

Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula Panetta and Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula (cropped).jpg 13 July 2004 – 21 April 2009 ANC Thabo Mbeki

Kgalema Motlanthe

(after Mbeki resigned from office)

Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma 2014.png 22 April 2009 – 3 October 2012 ANC Jacob Zuma
Naledi Pandor Naledi Pandor 2012.jpg 4 October 2012 – 6 May 2014 ANC
Malusi Gigaba Malusi Gigaba.jpg 7 May 2014 – 30 March 2017 ANC
Hlengiwe Mkhize Hlengiwe Mkhize (cropped).jpg 30 March 2017 – 17 October 2017 ANC
Ayanda Dlodlo 17 October 2017 – 26 February 2018 ANC
Malusi Gigaba Malusi Gigaba.jpg 27 February 2018 - 13 November 2018 [3] ANC Cyril Ramaphosa
Siyaboga Cwele Siyabonga Cyprian Cwele - 2018 (cropped).jpg 22 November 2018 - 29 May 2019 ANC
Aaron Motsoaledi Dr Pakishe Aaron Motsoaledi, Minister of Health, South Africa (cropped).jpg 30 May 2019 – 30 June 2024 ANC
Leon Schreiber Leon Schreiber, May 2017.png 30 June 2024 – Present DA

References

  1. "Determination salaries and allowances of the Deputy President, Ministers and Deputy Ministers Archived 29 January 2016 at the Wayback Machine ", Proclamation No. 3 of 2015.
  2. "JUST IN: Malusi Gigaba falls on his sword and resigns from Cabinet". News24. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
  3. "JUST IN: Malusi Gigaba falls on his sword and resigns from Cabinet". News24. Retrieved 13 November 2018.