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Minister of Employment and Labour

{{Short description|South African cabinet position}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2015}}

{{Use South African English|date=August 2015}}

{{Multiple issues|{{more footnotes|date=August 2015}}{{more citations needed|date=August 2015}}}}

{{Infobox Political post

|post = South Africa
Minister

|body = Employment and Labour

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|flag = Flag of South Africa.svg{{!}}border

|flagsize = 110px

|flagcaption = Flag of South Africa

|insignia =

|insigniasize = 100px

|insigniacaption = Coat of Arms

|department = Department of Labour

|image = Minister Thulas Nxesi.png

|alt =

|incumbent = Thulas Nxesi

|incumbentsince = 30 May 2019

|style = The Honourable

|residence =

|appointer = Cyril Ramaphosa

|appointerpost = President of South Africa

|termlength =

|inaugural = Frederic Creswell

|formation = 19 June 1924

|last =

|end =

|succession =

|deputy = Boitumelo Moloi

|salary = R2,211,937"[http://www.gov.za/sites/www.gov.za/files/38470_proc3.pdf Determination salaries and allowances of the Deputy President, Ministers and Deputy Ministers]", Proclamation No. 3 of 2015.

|website = [http://www.labour.gov.za/ Department of Labour]

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

List of past ministers

=Labour, 1924-1935=

class="wikitable" width=60%

! colspan=2 width=20%|Name

! width=75|Portrait

! colspan=2 width=30%|Term

! width=10%|Party

! colspan=2 width=25%|Prime Minister

style="text-align:center"

! style="width:1%;background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (South Africa)}}" |

| align=left | Frederic Creswell

| 75px

| 19 June 1924

| 1925

| rowspan=3 | LP

| rowspan=3 style="width:1%;background-color: {{party color|National Party (South Africa)}}" |

| rowspan=3 | J.B.M. Hertzog
{{small|(I) (II) }}

style="text-align:center"

! style="width:1%;background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (South Africa)}}" |

| align=left | Thomas Boydell

| 75px

| 1925

| 14 June 1929

style="text-align:center"

! style="width:1%;background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (South Africa)}}" |

| align=left | Frederic Creswell

| 75px

| 14 June 1929

| 17 May 1933

style="text-align:center"

! style="width:1%;background-color: {{party color|United Party (South Africa)}}" |

| align=left | Adriaan Fourie

| 75px

| 17 May 1933

| 1935

| UP

| style="width:1%;background-color: {{party color|United Party (South Africa)}}" |

| J.B.M. Hertzog
{{small|(III) }}

=Labour and social welfare, 1935-1937=

class="wikitable" width=60%

! colspan=2 width=20%|Name

! width=75|Portrait

! colspan=2 width=30%|Term

! width=10%|Party

! colspan=2 width=25%|Prime Minister

style="text-align:center"

! style="width:1%;background-color: {{party color|United Party (South Africa)}}" |

| align=left | Adriaan Fourie

| 75px

| 1935

| 1936

| rowspan=2 | UP

| rowspan=2 style="width:1%;background-color: {{party color|United Party (South Africa)}}" |

| rowspan=2 | J.B.M. Hertzog
{{small|(III) }}

style="text-align:center"

! style="width:1%;background-color: {{party color|United Party (South Africa)}}" |

| align=left | J.F.H. Hofmeyer

| 75px

| 1936

| 1937

=Labour, 1937-1976=

class="wikitable" width=60%

! colspan=2 width=20%|Name

! width=75|Portrait

! colspan=2 width=30%|Term

! width=10%|Party

! colspan=2 width=25%|Prime Minister

style="text-align:center"

! style="width:1%;background-color: {{party color|United Party (South Africa)}}" |

| align=left | J.F.H. Hofmeyer

| 75px

| 1937

| 18 May 1938

| rowspan=2 | UP

| rowspan=3 style="width:1%;background-color: {{party color|United Party (South Africa)}}" |

| rowspan=2 | J.B.M. Hertzog
{{small|(III) (IV) }}

style="text-align:center"

! style="width:1%;background-color: {{party color|United Party (South Africa)}}" |

| align=left | Harry Lawrence

| 75px

| 18 May 1938

| 5 September 1939

style="text-align:center"

! rowspan=2 style="width:1%;background-color: {{party color|Labour Party (South Africa)}}" |

| rowspan=2 align=left | Walter Madeley

| rowspan=2 | 75px

| rowspan=2 | 5 September 1939

| rowspan=2 | 1945

| rowspan=2 | LP

| Jan Smuts
{{small|(takes office after Hertzog resignation) }}

style="text-align:center"

| rowspan=2 style="width:1%;background-color: {{party color|United Party (South Africa)}}" |

| rowspan=2 | Jan Smuts
{{small|(III) }}

style="text-align:center"

! style="width:1%;background-color: {{party color|United Party (South Africa)}}" |

| align=left | C.F. Steyn

| 75px

| 1945

| 26 May 1948

| UP

style="text-align:center"

! style="width:1%;background-color: {{party color|Reunited National Party}}" |

| align=left | B.J. Schoeman

| 75px

| 26 May 1948

| 1954

| rowspan=2 | HNP

| rowspan=2 style="width:1%;background-color: {{party color|Reunited National Party}}" |

| rowspan=2 | D.F. Malan
{{small|(I) (II) }}

style="text-align:center"

! rowspan=3 style="width:1%;background-color: {{party color|Reunited National Party}}" |

| rowspan=3 align=left | Jan de Klerk

| rowspan=3 | 75px

| rowspan=3 | 1954

| rowspan=3 | 8 October 1961

style="text-align:center"

| rowspan=2 | NP

| rowspan=2 style="width:1%;background-color: {{party color|National Party (South Africa)}}" |

| Strydom
{{small|(I) }}

style="text-align:center"

| Hendrik Verwoerd
{{small|(takes office after Strydom's death) }}

style="text-align:center"

! style="width:1%;background-color: {{party color|National Party (South Africa)}}" |

| align=left | A.E. Trollip

| 75px

| 8 October 1961

| 30 March 1966

| rowspan=3 | NP

| rowspan=3 style="width:1%;background-color: {{party color|National Party (South Africa)}}" |

| rowspan=2 | Hendrik Verwoerd
{{small|(I) (II) }}

style="text-align:center"

! rowspan=3 style="width:1%;background-color: {{party color|National Party (South Africa)}}" |

| rowspan=3 align=left | Marais Viljoen

| rowspan=3 | 75px

| rowspan=3 | 30 March 1966

| rowspan=3 | 1976

style="text-align:center"

| B.J. Vorster
{{small|(takes office after Verwoerd's death) }}

style="text-align:center"

| NP

| style="width:1%;background-color: {{party color|National Party (South Africa)}}" |

| B.J. Vorster
{{small|(I) (II) }}

=Manpower utilisation, 1976-1994=

class="wikitable" width=60%

! colspan=2 width=20%|Name

! width=75|Portrait

! colspan=2 width=30%|Term

! width=10%|Party

! colspan=2 width=25%|President
{{small|(since 1984)}}

style="text-align:center"

! rowspan=2 style="width:1%;background-color: {{party color|National Party (South Africa)}}" |

| rowspan=2 align=left | S.P. Botha

| rowspan=2 | 75px

| rowspan=2 | 1976

| rowspan=2 | 15 November 1983

| NP

| style="width:1%;background-color: {{party color|National Party (South Africa)}}" |

| B.J. Vorster
{{small|(II) (III) }}

style="text-align:center"

| NP

| rowspan=2 style="width:1%;background-color: {{party color|National Party (South Africa)}}" |

| rowspan=2 | P.W. Botha
{{small|(I) (II) }}

style="text-align:center"

! style="width:1%;background-color: grey" |

| align=left | Unknown

|

| 15 November 1983

| 6 September 1989

|

style="text-align:center"

! style="width:1%;background-color: {{party color|National Party (South Africa)}}" |

| align=left | Gene Louw

|

| 6 September 1989

| 1992

| NP

| rowspan=2 style="width:1%;background-color: {{party color|National Party (South Africa)}}" |

| rowspan=2 | F.W. de Klerk
{{small|(I) }}

style="text-align:center"

! style="width:1%;background-color: grey" |

| align=left | Unknown

|

| 1992

| 10 May 1994

|

=Labour, 1994-2019=

class="wikitable" width=60%

! colspan=2 width=20%|Name

! width=75|Portrait

! colspan=2 width=30%|Term

! width=10%|Party

! colspan=2 width=25%|President

style="text-align:center"

! style="width:1%;background-color: {{party color|African National Congress}}" |

| align=left | Tito Mboweni

| align=center | {{CSS image crop|Image = Tito_Mboweni_-_New_Champions_-_World_Economic_Forum_on_Africa_2011.jpg|bSize = 300|cWidth =75|cHeight =100|oTop = 0|oLeft = 15}}

| 10 May 1994

| 14 June 1999

| ANC

| style="width:1%;background-color: {{party color|African National Congress}}" |

| Nelson Mandela
{{small|(Government of National Unity) }}

style="text-align:center"

! rowspan=3 style="width:1%;background-color: {{party color|African National Congress}}" |

| rowspan=3 align=left | Membathisi Mdladlana

| rowspan=3 |

| rowspan=3 | 14 June 1999

| rowspan=3 | 30 October 2010

| rowspan=3 | ANC

| rowspan=2 style="width:1%;background-color: {{party color|African National Congress}}" |

| Thabo Mbeki
{{small|(I) (II) }}

style="text-align:center"

| Kgalema Motlanthe
{{small|(takes office after Mbeki resigns) }}

style="text-align:center"

| rowspan=2 style="width:1%;background-color: {{party color|African National Congress}}" |

| rowspan=2 | Jacob Zuma
{{small|(I) (II) }}
Cyril Ramaphosa {{small|(I)}}

style="text-align:center"

! style="width:1%;background-color: {{party color|African National Congress}}" |

| align=left | Mildred Oliphant

|

| 1 November 2010

| 29 May 2019

| ANC

===Employment and labour, 2019-present===

class="wikitable" width=60%

! colspan=2 width=20%|Name

! width=75|Portrait

! colspan=2 width=30%|Term

! width=10%|Party

! colspan=2 width=25%|President

style="text-align:center"

! style="width:1%;background-color: {{party color|African National Congress}}" |

| align=left | Thulas Nxesi

| align=center | 75px

| 30 May 2019

| 19 June 2024

| ANC

| style="width:1%;background-color: {{party color|African National Congress}}" |

| Cyril Ramaphosa
{{small|(II)}}

References

{{Reflist}}

External links

  • [http://www.labour.gov.za/ Department of Labour]

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