Minister of Employment and Labour

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)
Flag of South Africa
Incumbent Thulas Nxesi 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
Website	Department of Labour

The minister of employment and labour is a minister in the Cabinet of South Africa.

List of past ministers

Labour, 1924-1935

Name		Portrait	Term		Party	Prime Minister
	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)

Labour and social welfare, 1935-1937

Name		Portrait	Term		Party	Prime Minister
	Adriaan Fourie		1935	1936	UP		J.B.M. Hertzog (III)
	J.F.H. Hofmeyer		1936	1937

Labour, 1937-1976

Name		Portrait	Term		Party	Prime Minister
	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)

Manpower utilisation, 1976-1994

Name		Portrait	Term		Party	President (since 1984)
	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

Labour, 1994-2019

Name		Portrait	Term		Party	President
	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

Employment and labour, 2019-present

Name		Portrait	Term		Party	President
	Thulas Nxesi		30 May 2019	19 June 2024	ANC		Cyril Ramaphosa (II)

External links

• Department of Labour