Minister of Defence and Military Veterans

The Minister of Defence and Military Veterans (formerly the Minister of Defence) is a Minister in the Government of South Africa, who is responsible for overseeing the Department of Defence and the South African National Defence Force. The current minister is Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula and her deputy is Thabang Makwetla.

Ministers of Defence

Minister	Party	Term	Under
Jan Smuts	SAP	1910–1920	Government of Prime Minister Louis Botha
Hendrik Mentz	SAP	1920–1924	Government of Prime Minister Jan Smuts
Frederic Creswell	Labour	1924–1933	Government of Prime Minister J. B. M. Hertzog
Oswald Pirow	NP / UP	1933–1939
Jan Smuts	UP	1939–1948	Government of Prime Minister Jan Smuts
Frans Erasmus	NP	1948–1954	Government of Prime Minister D. F. Malan
		1954–1958	Government of Prime Minister J. G. Strijdom
		1958–1959	Government of Prime Minister H. F. Verwoerd
Jim Fouché	NP	1959–1966
P. W. Botha	NP	1966–1978	Government of Prime Minister B. J. Vorster
		1978–1980	Government of Prime Minister P. W. Botha
Magnus Malan	NP	1980–1984
		1984–1989	Government of State President P. W. Botha
		1989–1991	Government of State President F. W. de Klerk
Roelf Meyer	NP	1991–1992
Gene Louw	NP	1992–1993
Kobie Coetsee	NP	1993–1994
Joe Modise	ANC	1994–1999	Government of President Nelson Mandela
Mosiuoa Lekota	ANC	1999–2008	Government of President Thabo Mbeki
Charles Nqakula	ANC	2008–2009	Government of President Kgalema Motlanthe
Lindiwe Sisulu	ANC	2009–2012	Government of President Jacob Zuma
Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula	ANC	2012–

See also

• Department of Defence and Military Veterans
• South African National Defence Force

External links

• Department of Defence