Minister of Home Affairs (South Africa)
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The Minister of Home Affairs is the minister
in the Cabinet of South Africa with responsibility for the Department of Home Affairs. The position includes responsibility for immigration, refugee and asylum policy, for the civil registry
, and for the issuing of identity documents and passports.
Minister (government)
A minister is a politician who holds significant public office in a national or regional government. Senior ministers are members of the cabinet....
in the Cabinet of South Africa with responsibility for the Department of Home Affairs. The position includes responsibility for immigration, refugee and asylum policy, for the civil registry
Civil registry
Civil registration is the system by which a government records the vital events of its citizens and residents. The resulting repository or database is called civil register or registry, or population registry. The primary purpose of civil registration is to create legal documents that are used to...
, and for the issuing of identity documents and passports.
List of Ministers of Home Affairs
| Minister | Party | Incumbency | Under |
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| Ministers of the Interior | |||
| Jan Smuts Jan Smuts Jan Christiaan Smuts, OM, CH, ED, KC, FRS, PC was a prominent South African and British Commonwealth statesman, military leader and philosopher. In addition to holding various cabinet posts, he served as Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa from 1919 until 1924 and from 1939 until 1948... |
SAP South African Party The South African Party was a political party that existed in the Union of South Africa from 1911 to 1934.-History:The outline and foundation for the party was realized after the election of a 'South African party' in the 1910 South African general election under the leadership of Louis Botha... |
1910–1912 | Government of Prime Minister Louis Botha Louis Botha Louis Botha was an Afrikaner and first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa—the forerunner of the modern South African state... |
| Abraham Fischer Abraham Fischer Abraham Fischer was a South African statesman. He was the sole Prime Minister of the Orange River Colony in South Africa, and when that ceased to exist joined the cabinet of the newly formed Union of South Africa.-Biography:... |
SAP | 1912–1913 | |
| Hendrik Schalk Theron | SAP | 1915 | |
| Sir Thomas Watt | SAP | 1916–1919 | |
| 1919–1921 | First Government of Prime Minister Jan Smuts Jan Smuts Jan Christiaan Smuts, OM, CH, ED, KC, FRS, PC was a prominent South African and British Commonwealth statesman, military leader and philosopher. In addition to holding various cabinet posts, he served as Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa from 1919 until 1924 and from 1939 until 1948... |
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| Patrick Duncan | SAP | 1921–1924 | |
| D. F. Malan | NP National Party (South Africa) The National Party is a former political party in South Africa. Founded in 1914, it was the governing party of the country from 4 June 1948 until 9 May 1994. Members of the National Party were sometimes known as Nationalists or Nats. Its policies included apartheid, the establishment of a... |
1924–1933 | Government of Prime Minister J. B. M. Hertzog |
| Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr | SAP/UP United Party (South Africa) The United Party was South Africa's ruling political party between 1934 and 1948. It was formed by a merger of most of Prime Minister Barry Hertzog's National Party with the rival South African Party of Jan Smuts, plus the remnants of the Unionist Party... |
1933–1936 | |
| Richard Stuttaford | UP | 1936–1939 | |
| Harry Gordon Lawrence | UP | 1939–1943 | Second Government of Prime Minister Jan Smuts |
| Charles Francis Clarkson | UP | 1943–1948 | |
| Harry Gordon Lawrence | UP | 1948 | |
| T. E. Dönges | NP | 1948–1954 | Government of Prime Minister D. F. Malan |
| 1954–1958 | Government of Prime Minister J. G. Strijdom | ||
| Jozua François Naudé Jozua François Naudé Jozua François Naudé served as Acting State President of South Africa from 1967 to 1968.A National Party politician for many years, he served as Minister of Posts and Telegraphs from 1950 to 1954, as Minister of Health from 1954 to 1958, and as Minister of Finance from 1958 to 1961... |
NP | 1958–1961 | Government of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd |
| Johannes de Klerk Johannes de Klerk Johannes de Klerk was a South African politician, a member of the National Party, Senator , Minister of Work and Public Works , Work and Mines , Home Affairs, Work and Immigration , Home Affairs, Education and Arts and Sciences , Education, Arts and Sciences and Information and National... |
NP | 1961–1966 | |
| P. K. Le Roux | NP | 1966-1968 | Government of Prime Minister B. J. Vorster |
| Lourens Muller Lourens Muller Stefanus Lourens Muller was a South African politician, a member of the National Party, MP for Ceres , vice-Minister of Justice , Police , Finance , Economic Affairs , and Minister of Home Affairs , Police , Economic Affairs and Transport in the governments of John Vorster and Pieter... |
NP | 1968–1970 | |
| Marais Viljoen Marais Viljoen Marais Viljoen was the last ceremonial State President of South Africa from 4 June 1979 until 3 September 1984. Viljoen became the last of the ceremonial presidents of South Africa when he was succeeded in 1984 by an executive president, P. W. Botha.- Early life :Viljoen was the youngest of six... |
NP | 1970 | |
| Theo Gerdener | NP | 1970–1972 | |
| Connie Mulder Connie Mulder Connie Mulder, born Petrus Cornelius Mulder , was a South African politician and father of present cabinet minister and leader of the Freedom Front Plus Pieter Mulder.... |
NP | 1972–1978 | |
| Alwyn Schlebusch Alwyn Schlebusch Alwyn Schlebusch was the only holder of the title Vice State President of South Africa from 1 January 1981 to 14 September 1984... |
NP | 1978–1980 | Government of Prime Minister P. W. Botha |
| Chris Heunis Chris Heunis Jan Christiaan Heunis was a South African Afrikaner lawyer, politician, member of the National Party and former minister in the governments of John Vorster and P.W. Botha.... |
NP | 1980–1982 | |
| F. W. de Klerk | NP | 1982–1984 | |
| Ministers of Internal Affairs | |||
| F. W. de Klerk | NP | 1984–1985 | Government of State President State President of South Africa State President, or Staatspresident in Afrikaans, was the title of South Africa's head of state from 1961 to 1994. The office was established when the country became a republic in 1961, and Queen Elizabeth II ceased to be head of state... P. W. Botha |
| Stoffel Botha Stoffel Botha Jan Christoffel Stoffel Botha was a South African politician, a member of the National Party, elected representative of Port Natal , administrator of Natal Province , Minister of Home Affairs in the PW Botha government.Lawyer by profession, he began his professional career in Pretoria before... |
NP | 1985–1989 | |
| Gene Louw Gene Louw Eugene Louw, born 15 July 1931, is a South African politician, member of the National Party, MP for Durbanville and Paarl, who was administrator for Cape Province , Minister of Home Affairs , National Education , Public Works and Defence in the de Klerk government.Louw retired from political... |
NP | 1989–1992 | Government of State President F. W. de Klerk |
| Louis Pienaar Louis Pienaar Louis Pienaar is a South African lawyer and former diplomat. In 1985, the apartheid government put him in charge of Namibia, in the lead-up to that country's independence in 1990... |
NP | 1992–1993 | |
| Danie Schutte | NP | 1993–1994 | |
| Ministers of Home Affairs | |||
| Mangosuthu Buthelezi Mangosuthu Buthelezi Inkosi Mangosuthu Buthelezi is a South African Zulu politician who founded the Inkatha Freedom Party in 1975 and continues to lead the party today.His praise name is Shenge.-Early life:... |
IFP Inkatha Freedom Party The Inkatha Freedom Party is a political party in South Africa. Since its founding, it has been led by Mangosuthu Buthelezi. It is currently the fourth largest party in the National Assembly of South Africa.-History:... |
1994–1999 | Government of President President of South Africa The President of the Republic of South Africa is the head of state and head of government under South Africa's Constitution. From 1961 to 1994, the head of state was called the State President.... Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, and was the first South African president to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist, and the leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing... |
| 1999–2004 | Government of President Thabo Mbeki Thabo Mbeki Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki is a South African politician who served two terms as the second post-apartheid President of South Africa from 14 June 1999 to 24 September 2008. He is also the brother of Moeletsi Mbeki... |
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| Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula is a South African politician, appointed minister of correctional services in 2009. She was the minister of home affairs from 2004.Mapisa-Nqakula obtained a teacher's diploma from the Bensonvale Teachers College.... |
ANC African National Congress The African National Congress is South Africa's governing Africanist political party, supported by its tripartite alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party , since the establishment of non-racial democracy in April 1994. It defines itself as a... |
2004–2008 | |
| 2008–2009 | Government of President Kgalema Motlanthe | ||
| Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma is a South African politician and was an anti-apartheid activist. She was South Africa's Minister of Health from 1994 to 1999, under President Nelson Mandela, then Minister of Foreign Affairs from 17 June 1999 to 10 May 2009, under Presidents Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema... |
ANC | 2009– | Government of President Jacob Zuma Jacob Zuma Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma is the President of South Africa, elected by parliament following his party's victory in the 2009 general election.... |