Minister of Employment and Labour

South Africa Minister of 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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Incumbent Mildred Oliphant since 1 November 2010
Department of Labour
Style	The Honourable
Appointer	Jacob Zuma
Inaugural holder	Frederic Creswell
Formation	19 June 1924
Deputy	Sango Patekile Holomisa
Salary	R2,211,937
Website	Department of Labour

The Minister of Labour is a Minister in the Cabinet of South Africa.

List of Past Ministers

Minister of Labour, 1924-1935

Name		Portrait	Term		Party	Prime Minister
style="width:1%;background-color: Template:Labour Party (South Africa)/meta/color" |	Frederic Creswell		19 June 1924	1925	LP	rowspan=3 style="width:1%;background-color: Template:National Party (South Africa)/meta/color" |	J.B.M. Hertzog (I) (II)
style="width:1%;background-color: Template:Labour Party (South Africa)/meta/color" |	Thomas Boydell		1925	14 June 1929
style="width:1%;background-color: Template:Labour Party (South Africa)/meta/color" |	Frederic Creswell		14 June 1929	17 May 1933
style="width:1%;background-color: Template:United Party (South Africa)/meta/color" |	Adriaan Fourie		17 May 1933	1935	UP	style="width:1%;background-color: Template:United Party (South Africa)/meta/color" |	J.B.M. Hertzog (III)

Minister of Labour and Social Welfare, 1935-1937

Name		Portrait	Term		Party	Prime Minister
style="width:1%;background-color: Template:United Party (South Africa)/meta/color" |	Adriaan Fourie		1935	1936	UP	rowspan=2 style="width:1%;background-color: Template:United Party (South Africa)/meta/color" |	J.B.M. Hertzog (III)
style="width:1%;background-color: Template:United Party (South Africa)/meta/color" |	J.F.H. Hofmeyer		1936	1937

Minister of Labour, 1937-1976

Name		Portrait	Term		Party	Prime Minister
style="width:1%;background-color: Template:United Party (South Africa)/meta/color" |	J.F.H. Hofmeyer		1937	18 May 1938	UP	rowspan=3 style="width:1%;background-color: Template:United Party (South Africa)/meta/color" |	J.B.M. Hertzog (III) (IV)
style="width:1%;background-color: Template:United Party (South Africa)/meta/color" |	Harry Lawrence		18 May 1938	5 September 1939
rowspan=2 style="width:1%;background-color: Template:Labour Party (South Africa)/meta/color" |	Walter Madeley		5 September 1939	1945	LP	Jan Smuts (takes office after Hertzog resignation)
rowspan=2 style="width:1%;background-color: Template:United Party (South Africa)/meta/color" |						Jan Smuts (III)
style="width:1%;background-color: Template:United Party (South Africa)/meta/color" |	C.F. Steyn		1945	26 May 1948	UP
style="width:1%;background-color: Template:Reunited National Party/meta/color" |	B.J. Schoeman		26 May 1948	1954	HNP	rowspan=2 style="width:1%;background-color: Template:Reunited National Party/meta/color" |	D.F. Malan (I) (II)
rowspan=3 style="width:1%;background-color: Template:Reunited National Party/meta/color" |	Jan de Klerk		1954	8 October 1961
NP					rowspan=2 style="width:1%;background-color: Template:National Party (South Africa)/meta/color" |	Strydom (I)
					Hendrik Verwoerd (takes office after Strydom's death)
style="width:1%;background-color: Template:National Party (South Africa)/meta/color" |	A.E. Trollip		8 October 1961	30 March 1966	NP	rowspan=3 style="width:1%;background-color: Template:National Party (South Africa)/meta/color" |	Hendrik Verwoerd (I) (II)
rowspan=3 style="width:1%;background-color: Template:National Party (South Africa)/meta/color" |	Marais Viljoen		30 March 1966	1976
B.J. Vorster (takes office after Verwoerd's death)
NP					style="width:1%;background-color: Template:National Party (South Africa)/meta/color" |	B.J. Vorster (I) (II)

Minister of Manpower Utilisation, 1976-1994

Name		Portrait	Term		Party	President (since 1984)
rowspan=2 style="width:1%;background-color: Template:National Party (South Africa)/meta/color" |	S.P. Botha		1976	15 November 1983	NP	style="width:1%;background-color: Template:National Party (South Africa)/meta/color" |	B.J. Vorster (II) (III)
NP					rowspan=2 style="width:1%;background-color: Template:National Party (South Africa)/meta/color" |	P.W. Botha (I) (II)
	Unknown		15 November 1983	6 September 1989
style="width:1%;background-color: Template:National Party (South Africa)/meta/color" |	Gene Louw		6 September 1989	1992	NP	rowspan=2 style="width:1%;background-color: Template:National Party (South Africa)/meta/color" |	F.W. de Klerk (I)
	Unknown		1992	10 May 1994

Minister of Labour, 1994-present

Name		Portrait	Term		Party	President
style="width:1%;background-color: Template:African National Congress/meta/color" |	Tito Mboweni		10 May 1994	14 June 1999	ANC	style="width:1%;background-color: Template:African National Congress/meta/color" |	Nelson Mandela (Government of National Unity)
rowspan=3 style="width:1%;background-color: Template:African National Congress/meta/color" |	Membathisi Mdladlana		14 June 1999	30 October 2010	ANC	rowspan=2 style="width:1%;background-color: Template:African National Congress/meta/color" |	Thabo Mbeki (I) (II)
Kgalema Motlanthe (takes office after Mbeki resigns)
rowspan=2 style="width:1%;background-color: Template:African National Congress/meta/color" |						Jacob Zuma (I) (II)
style="width:1%;background-color: Template:African National Congress/meta/color" |	Mildred Oliphant		1 November 2010	Incumbent	ANC

External links

• Department of Labour