South Africa Minister of Defence and Military Veterans | |
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Department of Defence Department of Military Veterans | |
Style | The Honourable |
Appointer | Cyril Ramaphosa |
Inaugural holder | Lindiwe Sisulu |
Formation | 10 May 2009 |
Deputy | Deputy Minister of Defence and Military Veterans |
Salary | R 2,211,937[1] |
Website | Department of Defence Department of 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, the Department of Military Veterans and the South African National Defence Force.
Name | Portrait | Term | Party | President (since 1984) | |||
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Jan Smuts | ![]() |
15 September 1910 | 27 August 1919 | SAP | Louis Botha (I) (II) | ||
Hendrik Mentz | 28 August 1919 | 19 June 1924 | SAP | ||||
Jan Smuts (takes office after Botha dies) | |||||||
Jan Smuts (I) (II) | |||||||
Frederic Creswell | ![]() |
20 June 1924 | 17 May 1933 | LP | J.B.M. Hertzog (I) (II) | ||
Oswald Pirow | ![]() |
18 May 1933 | 4 September 1939 | NP | |||
UP | J.B.M. Hertzog (III) (IV) | ||||||
Jan Smuts | ![]() |
5 September 1939 | 26 May 1948 | UP | |||
Jan Smuts (takes office after Hertzog resignation) | |||||||
Jan Smuts (III) | |||||||
F.C. Erasmus | ![]() |
26 May 1948 | 12 December 1959 | HNP | D.F. Malan (I) (II) | ||
NP | Strydom (I) | ||||||
J.J. Fouché | ![]() |
12 December 1959 | 30 March 1966 | NP | |||
Hendrik Verwoerd (takes office after Strydom's death) | |||||||
Hendrik Verwoerd (I) (II) | |||||||
P.W. Botha | ![]() |
30 March 1966 | 28 April 1981 | NP | |||
B.J. Vorster (takes office after Verwoerd's death) | |||||||
B.J. Vorster (I) (II) (III) | |||||||
Magnus Malan | 29 April 1981 | 1991 | NP | P.W. Botha (I) (II) | |||
F.W. de Klerk (I) | |||||||
Roelf Meyer | 1991 | 1992 | NP | ||||
Gene Louw | 1992 | 1993 | NP | ||||
Kobie Coetsee | 1993 | 9 May 1994 | NP | ||||
Joe Modise | ![]() |
10 May 1994 | 25 June 1999 | ANC | Nelson Mandela (Government of National Unity) | ||
Mosiuoa Lekota | ![]() |
24 June 1999 | 19 September 2008 | ANC | Thabo Mbeki (I) (II) | ||
Charles Nqakula | 20 September 2008 | 21 April 2009 | ANC | Kgalema Motlanthe (takes office after Mbeki resigns) | |||
Lindiwe Sisulu | ![]() |
22 April 2009 | 12 June 2012 | ANC | Jacob Zuma (I) (II) | ||
Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula | 12 June 2012 | 2013 | ANC |
Name | Portrait | Term | Party | President | |||
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Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula | 2013 | 2021 | ANC | Jacob Zuma (I) (II) Cyril Ramaphosa (I) (II) | |||
Thandi Modise | ![]() |
2021 | Incumbent | ANC | Cyril Ramaphosa (II shuffled) |