| Post: | South Africa Minister |
| Body: | Employment and Labour |
| Flag: | Flag of South Africa.svgborder |
| Flagsize: | 110px |
| Flagcaption: | Flag of South Africa |
| Insigniasize: | 100px |
| Insigniacaption: | Coat of Arms |
| Department: | Department of Labour |
| Incumbent: | Thulas Nxesi |
| Incumbentsince: | 30 May 2019 |
| Appointer: | Cyril Ramaphosa |
| Appointerpost: | President of South Africa |
| Inaugural: | Frederic Creswell |
| Formation: | 19 June 1924 |
| Deputy: | Boitumelo Moloi |
| Salary: | R2,211,937[1] |
| Website: | Department of Labour |
The Minister of Employment and Labour is a Minister in the Cabinet of South Africa.
| Name | width=75 | Portrait | Term | width=10% | Party | Prime Minister | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=left | Frederic Creswell | 19 June 1924 | 1925 | LP | J.B.M. Hertzog | |||
| align=left | Thomas Boydell | 1925 | 14 June 1929 | |||||
| align=left | Frederic Creswell | 14 June 1929 | 17 May 1933 | |||||
| align=left | Adriaan Fourie | 17 May 1933 | 1935 | UP | J.B.M. Hertzog | |||
| Name | width=75 | Portrait | Term | width=10% | Party | Prime Minister | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=left | Adriaan Fourie | 1935 | 1936 | UP | J.B.M. Hertzog | |||
| align=left | J.F.H. Hofmeyer | 1936 | 1937 | |||||
| Name | width=75 | Portrait | Term | width=10% | Party | Prime Minister | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=left | J.F.H. Hofmeyer | 1937 | 18 May 1938 | UP | J.B.M. Hertzog | |||
| align=left | Harry Lawrence | 18 May 1938 | 5 September 1939 | |||||
| Walter Madeley | 5 September 1939 | 1945 | LP | Jan Smuts | ||||
| Jan Smuts | ||||||||
| align=left | C.F. Steyn | 1945 | 26 May 1948 | UP | ||||
| align=left | B.J. Schoeman | 26 May 1948 | 1954 | HNP | D.F. Malan | |||
| Jan de Klerk | 1954 | 8 October 1961 | ||||||
| NP | Strydom | |||||||
| Hendrik Verwoerd | ||||||||
| align=left | A.E. Trollip | 8 October 1961 | 30 March 1966 | NP | Hendrik Verwoerd | |||
| Marais Viljoen | 30 March 1966 | 1976 | ||||||
| B.J. Vorster | ||||||||
| NP | B.J. Vorster | |||||||
| Name | width=75 | Portrait | Term | width=10% | Party | President | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S.P. Botha | 1976 | 15 November 1983 | NP | B.J. Vorster | ||||
| NP | P.W. Botha | |||||||
| align=left | Unknown | 15 November 1983 | 6 September 1989 | |||||
| align=left | Gene Louw | 6 September 1989 | 1992 | NP | F.W. de Klerk | |||
| align=left | Unknown | 1992 | 10 May 1994 | |||||
| Name | width=75 | Portrait | Term | width=10% | Party | President | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=left | Tito Mboweni | align=center | 10 May 1994 | 14 June 1999 | ANC | Nelson Mandela | |||
| Membathisi Mdladlana | 14 June 1999 | 30 October 2010 | ANC | Thabo Mbeki | |||||
| Kgalema Motlanthe | |||||||||
| align=left | Mildred Oliphant | 1 November 2010 | 29 May 2019 | ANC | |||||
| Name | width=75 | Portrait | Term | width=10% | Party | President | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=left | Thulas Nxesi | align=center | 30 May 2019 | 19 June 2024 | ANC | Cyril Ramaphosa |