Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy

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South Africa
Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy
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Incumbent
Gwede Mantashe
since 30 May 2019
Department of Mineral Resources and Energy
Style The Honourable
Appointer Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa
Deputy Nobuhle Nkabane
Salary R2,401,633 [1]
Website Department of Mineral Resources and Energy

The Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy is a minister in the cabinet of the South African national government. The portfolio was called the Ministry of Minerals and Energy until May 2009, when President Jacob Zuma split it into two separate portfolios under the Ministry of Mining (later the Ministry of Mineral Resources) and the Ministry of Energy. [2] Ten years later, in May 2019, his successor President Cyril Ramaphosa reunited the portfolios as the Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy. [3]

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The current minister is Gwede Mantashe, who was appointed to the position when the portfolios were reunified and who had been Minister of Mineral Resources before then. [3] He is the political head of the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy, which was formed in a merger in June 2019.

History

The Ministry of Minerals and Energy existed as a position in the apartheid government and was retained in the Government of National Unity (GNU) after the first democratic elections in 1994. [4] When the National Party resigned from the GNU, there was a cabinet reshuffle, in which Pik Botha was replaced. [5] Since then, every incumbent of the ministry has been a member of the ruling African National Congress.

When Zuma took office in May 2009, he separated the Department of Minerals and Energy into the Department of Mining and the Department of Energy, overseen by the Minister of Mining and the Minister of Energy respectively. [2] The Minister of Mining became known as the Minister of Mineral Resources from the beginning of his second cabinet in May 2014, and the department was also renamed accordingly. During Zuma's presidency, there were a number of cabinet reshuffles, affecting the energy portfolio in particular. [6] [7] [8] The dismissals of energy ministers were linked by commentators to Zuma's efforts to gain approval for a proposed nuclear power deal with Russia. [9] [10] [11]

When Ramaphosa replaced Zuma in February 2018, he retained the separate mineral resources and energy portfolios during his first cabinet, but, after being re-elected pursuant to the 2019 general election, he united the ministerial portfolios and, shortly afterwards, the departments. [3] [12]

List of ministers

Mineral and energy (1994–2009)

MinisterTermPresident
Pik Botha 19941996 Mandela (I)
Penuell Maduna 19961999
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka 19992004 Mbeki (I)
Lindiwe Hendricks 20042006 Mbeki (II)
Buyelwa Sonjica 20062009
Mbeki (II)

Motlanthe (I)

Susan Shabangu was deputy minister for the duration of Maduna and Mlambo-Ngcuka's tenure as minister. [13] Mlambo-Ngcuka and Shabangu were the portfolio's first female minister and deputy minister respectively, and theirs was the first ministry in the history of the South African government in which both top positions were filled by women. [14] Lulu Xingwana succeeded Shabangu as deputy minister under Hendricks. [15] [16]

Separate portfolios (2009–2019)

Mineral resources

MinisterTermPresident
Susan Shabangu 20092014 Zuma (I)
Ngoako Ramathlodi 20142015 Zuma (II)
Mosebenzi Zwane 20152018
Gwede Mantashe 20182019 Ramaphosa (I)

Godfrey Oliphant was deputy minister between November 2010 and May 2019. [17]

Energy

MinisterTermPresident
Dipuo Peters 20092013 Zuma (I)
Ben Martins 20132014
Tina Joemat-Pettersson 20142017 Zuma (II)
Mmamoloko Kubayi 20172017
David Mahlobo 20172018
Jeff Radebe 20182019 Ramaphosa (I)

Barbara Thomson was deputy minister of energy between November 2010 and May 2014, when she was succeeded by Thembi Majola, who remained in the position until December 2018. [18] [19]

Mineral resources and energy (2019–present)

MinisterTermPresident
Gwede Mantashe 2019Present Ramaphosa (II)

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