The minister of communications and digital technologies (formerly minister of communications, minister of posts, telecommunications and broadcasting and minister of posts and yelecommunications) is a minister in the Government of South Africa, responsible for overseeing the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies.
In May 2014 President Jacob Zuma split the ministry by establishing the position of minister of telecommunications and postal services alongside the minister of communications. However, in a cabinet reshuffle in November 2018, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the reversal of the split, absorbing the telecommunications and postal services functions back into the Ministry of Communications. The respective departments did not merge until after the 2019 general election. After the election Ramaphosa renamed the office as the minister of communications and digital technologies.
List of ministers
+List of ministers responsible for communications, 1994–presentPortfolioMinisterPartyTermPresidentPosts and TelecommunicationsPallo Jordan ANCMay 1994March 1996MandelaJay Naidoo ANCMarch 1996June 1999Posts, Telecommunications and BroadcastingIvy Matsepe-Casaburri ANCJune 1999April 2004MbekiCommunicationsIvy Matsepe-Casaburri ANCApril 2004May 2009Mbeki and MotlantheSiphiwe Nyanda ANCMay 2009October 2010ZumaRoy Padayachie ANCNovember 2010October 2011Dina Pule ANC October 2011July 2013Yunus Carrim ANC July 2013May 2014Faith Muthambi ANC May 2014March 2017Ayanda Dlodlo ANC March 2017October 2017Mmamoloko Kubayi ANC October 2017February 2018Nomvula Mokonyane ANC February 2018November 2018RamaphosaTelecommunications and Postal Services Siyabonga CweleANCMay 2014November 2018Zuma and RamaphosaCommunications and Digital TechnologiesStella Ndabeni-Abrahams ANC November 2018 August 2021RamaphosaKhumbudzo Ntshavheni ANC August 2021March 2023RamaphosaMondli Gungubele ANC March 2023June 2024RamaphosaSolly Malatsi DA July 2024 IncumbentRamaphosa
References
External links Ministry of Communications