Minister of Defence and Military Veterans (South Africa)

The Minister of Defence and Military Veterans (formerly the Minister of Defence) is a Minister

Minister (government)

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in the Government of South Africa

Government of South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a constitutional democracy with a three-tier system of government and an independent judiciary, operating in a nearly unique system that combines aspects of parliamentary and presidential systems. Legislative authority is held by the Parliament of South Africa...

, who is responsible for overseeing the Department of Defence and the South African National Defence Force

South African National Defence Force

The South African National Defence Force is the armed forces of South Africa. The military as it exists today was created in 1994, following South Africa's first post-apartheid national elections and the adoption of a new constitution...

. The current minister is Lindiwe Sisulu

Lindiwe Sisulu

Lindiwe Nonceba Sisulu is a South African politician, member of parliament since 1994, member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress and Minister of Housing from 2004 to 2009, and Minister of Defence and Military Veterans since 2009.-Early life:Sisulu was born to ANC...

and her deputy is Thabang Makwetla

Thabang Makwetla

Thabang Samson Phathakge Makwetla is the Premier of Mpumlanga Province. A member of the African National Congress, Makwetla has been Premier since 21 April 2004. Inside of the ANC, he is a supporter of former South African President Thabo Mbeki...

Ministers of Defence

Minister	Party	Incumbency	Under
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...	1910–1920	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...
Hendrik Mentz Hendrik Mentz Hendrik Mentz was a South African Party politician and South African Minister of Defence from 1920 to 1924.A Fast Attack Craft of the South African Navy was named after him....	SAP	1920–1924	Government of Prime Minister Jan Smuts
Frederic Creswell Frederic Creswell Colonel Frederic Hugh Page Creswell was a British-born Labour Party politician in South Africa. He was Minister of Defence from 1924 to March 1933.-Early life:...	Labour	1924–1933	Government of Prime Minister J. B. M. Hertzog
Oswald Pirow Oswald Pirow Oswald Pirow was a South African lawyer and far right politician, who held office as minister of Justice and Defence.-Early life:...	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... / 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...	1933–1939	Government of Prime Minister J. B. M. Hertzog
Jan Smuts	UP	1939–1948	Government of Prime Minister Jan Smuts
Frans Erasmus Frans Erasmus Frans C. Erasmus was a South African National Party politician and Minister of Defence from June 1948 to 1959 as well as Minister of justice from 1959 - August 1961.A Fast Attack Craft of the South African Navy was named after him....	NP	1948–1954	Government of Prime Minister D. F. Malan Daniel François Malan Daniel François Malan , more commonly known as D.F. Malan, was the Prime Minister of South Africa from 1948 to 1954. He is seen as a champion of Afrikaner nationalism. His National Party government came to power on the program of apartheid and began its comprehensive implementation.- Biography...
		1954–1958	Government of Prime Minister J. G. Strijdom Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom, commonly called JG Strydom or Hans Strydom , nicknamed the Lion of the North, was Prime Minister of South Africa from 30 November 1954 to 24 August 1958...
		1958–1959	Government of Prime Minister H. F. Verwoerd Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd , commonly identified as H.F. Verwoerd, was Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 until his assassination in 1966...
Jim Fouché Jacobus Johannes Fouché Jacobus Johannes Fouché served as the second President of South Africa from 1968 to 1975.Born in the Boer republic of the Orange Free State , Fouché was a successful farmer...	NP	1959–1966
P. W. Botha Pieter Willem Botha Pieter Willem Botha , commonly known as "P. W." and Die Groot Krokodil , was the prime minister of South Africa from 1978 to 1984 and the first executive state president from 1984 to 1989.First elected to Parliament in 1948, Botha was for eleven years head of the Afrikaner National Party and the...	NP	1966–1978	Government of Prime Minister B. J. Vorster
	NP	1978–1980	Government of Prime Minister P. W. Botha
Magnus Malan Magnus Malan General Magnus André De Merindol Malan was the Minister of Defence , Chief of the South African Defence Force and Chief of the South African Army.-Early life:...	NP	1980–1984	Government of Prime Minister P. W. Botha
		1984–1989	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
		1989–1991	Government of State President F. W. de Klerk Frederik Willem de Klerk Frederik Willem de Klerk , often known as F. W. de Klerk, is the former seventh and last State President of apartheid-era South Africa, serving from September 1989 to May 1994...
Roelf Meyer Roelf Meyer Roelof Petrus Meyer, born in Port Elizabeth on 16 July 1947 as the son of a farmer, is a South African politician and businessman.After completing school in Ficksburg, he studied law at the University of the Free State and finished with B Comm and LLB degrees. At the university, he was president...	NP	1991–1992
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	1992–1993
Kobie Coetsee Kobie Coetsee Hendrik Jacobus Coetsee was a South African lawyer, National Party politician and administrator as well as a negotiator during the country's transition to democracy....	NP	1993–1994
Joe Modise	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...	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...
Mosiuoa Lekota Mosiuoa Lekota Mosiuoa Gerard Patrick Lekota is a South African politician who currently serves as the President and Leader of the Congress of the People since 16 December 2008. Previously, under President Thabo Mbeki, he served in the Cabinet of South Africa as Minister of Defence from 17 June 1999 to 25...	ANC	1999–2008	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...
Charles Nqakula Charles Nqakula Charles Nqakula is a South African politician who has been Minister of Defence since September 2008. He was Minister of Safety and Security from May 2002 to September 2008. Tipped as a contender for the future presidency of South Africa, he is concurrently national chairperson of the South African...	ANC	2008–2009	Government of President Kgalema Motlanthe
Lindiwe Sisulu Lindiwe Sisulu Lindiwe Nonceba Sisulu is a South African politician, member of parliament since 1994, member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress and Minister of Housing from 2004 to 2009, and Minister of Defence and Military Veterans since 2009.-Early life:Sisulu was born to ANC...	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....

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