| Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
| Ngoako Ramatlhodi | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | MP |
| Office: | 1st Premier of Limpopo |
| Term Start: | 10 May 1994 |
| Term End: | 22 April 2004 |
| Office1: | Deputy Minister of Correctional Services |
| President1: | Jacob Zuma |
| Term Start1: | 1 November 2010 |
| Term End1: | 25 May 2014 |
| Office2: | Minister of Mineral Resources |
| President2: | Jacob Zuma |
| Term Start2: | 25 May 2014 |
| Term End2: | 23 September 2015 |
| Office3: | Minister of Public Service and Administration |
| President3: | Jacob Zuma |
| Deputy3: | Godfrey Oliphant |
| Term Start3: | 23 September 2015 |
| Term End3: | 31 March 2017 |
| Predecessor3: | Susan Shabangu |
| Successor3: | Mosebenzi Zwane |
| Birth Date: | 21 August 1955 |
| Birth Place: | Northern Transvaal, South Africa |
| Party: | African National Congress |
Ngoako Ramatlhodi (born 21 August 1955), a senior member of the African National Congress, was South Africa's Minister of Public Service and Administration from 2015[1] [2] to March 2017. In the first Zuma administration he had been an MP and a controversial member of the Judicial Service Commission. He resigned as MP in 2017.
Up to 2015 he was Minister of Mineral Resources. Ramatlhodi claimed in 2017 that Eskom chairperson Ben Ngubane and chief executive Brian Molefe requested that he terminate Glencor's mining licenses in an apparent ruse to facilitate the sale of its Optimum coal mine to the Gupta family.[3] [4] He was assigned to his subsequent ministerial post after he supposedly did not comply.
He was axed in the cabinet reshuffle of March 2017, allegedly without being given reasons.[5] His position was taken by a known Zuma ally, the then Free State economic development MEC Mosebenzi Zwane. In the same reshuffle, finance minister Pravin Gordhan and his deputy, Mcebisi Jonas, were also replaced.