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South Africa Minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources
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Incumbent Gwede Mantashe since 27 February 2018
Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources
Style	The Honourable
Appointer	President of South Africa
Deputy	Judith Tshabalala
Salary	R2,401,633
Website	Department of Mineral Resources and Energy

The minister of mineral and petroleum resources is a minister in the cabinet of the South African national government. The minister has political responsibility for the Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources.

The office in its current form was re-established in June 2024; it formerly existed between May 2009 and May 2019, initially as the minister of mining and then as the minister for mineral resources. During other periods, the mineral resources portfolio has been enlarged by the inclusion of energy: there was a minister of minerals and energy before May 2009 and, more recently, a minister of mineral resources and energy between May 2019 and June 2024.

The current minister of mineral resources is Gwede Mantashe, who was also the last minister of mineral resources and energy; he has overseen the mineral resources portfolio since February 2018.

Post-apartheid history

In the Government of National Unity (GNU) between 1994 and 1999, the mineral resources portfolio was part of the brief of the minister of minerals and energy, a post that had also existed during apartheid. Pik Botha of the National Party was the minister between 1994 and 1996; he was the last politician to oversee mineral resources who was not a member of the African National Congress. In 1999, the Ministry of Minerals and Energy became the first ministry in the history of the South African government in which both top positions were filled by women (with Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka as minister and Susan Shabangu as her deputy).

When he announced his first cabinet on 10 May 2009, President Jacob Zuma bifurcated the Department of Minerals and Energy into two disparate departments. The Department of Mineral Resources was henceforth overseen by the minister of mineral resources (initially called the minister of mining), while the Department of Energy was overseen by a new minister of energy.

Appointing his second cabinet on 29 May 2019, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that the minerals portfolio would again be merged with the energy portfolio, as it had been before Zuma's tenure. Soon after the ministries were merged into the Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy, the respective departments were likewise merged into the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy. This merger lasted only five years: on 30 June 2024, appointing his third cabinet, Ramaphosa announced that energy would be detached from the mineral resources portfolio again, now becoming the prerogative of a new minister of electricity and energy, and a separate minister of mineral and petroleum resources would be appointed.

List of ministers

List of deputy ministers

See also

• Mining in South Africa
• African Exploration Mining and Finance Corporation

References

1. "Here's how much South Africa's ministers and other top government officials will get paid this year". BusinessTech. 14 May 2021. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
2. Keller, Bill (12 May 1994). "Mandela Completes His Cabinet, Giving Buthelezi a Post". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
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4. "About Us". Department of Mineral Resources. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
5. "Statement by President Jacob Zuma on the appointment of the new Cabinet". South African Government. 10 May 2009. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
6. "President Cyril Ramaphosa announces changes to the National Executive". South African Government. 26 February 2018. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
7. "President Cyril Ramaphosa announces reconfigured departments". South African government. 14 June 2019. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
8. "Ramaphosa announces new cabinet – these are all the new ministers and deputies". BusinessTech. 30 June 2024. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
9. "Address by President Nelson Mandela at the National Assembly, Cape Town". Nelson Mandela – Speeches. 28 March 1996. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
10. "President Zuma announces changes to the National Executive". South African Government. 31 October 2010. Retrieved 4 July 2024.

External links

• Ministry page in government directory
• Department page in government directory
• Department of Mineral Resources and Energy website

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