Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies

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.

South Africa Minister of Communications
List 10 other official names: Minister van Kommunikasie (Afrikaans) uNgqongqotjhe wezokuThintana (Southern Ndebele) UMphathiswa lezoNxibelelwano (Xhosa) Indvuna wezokuXhumana (Zulu) Indvuna leTekuchumana (Swazi) Tona ya Dikgokagano (Northern Sotho) Letona la Dikgokahano (Sotho) Tona la Ditlhaeletsano (Tswana) Holobyeya swa Vuhlanganisi (Tsonga) Minisiṱa wa Vhudavhidzani (Venda)
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Incumbent Solly Malatsi since 3 July 2024[1]
Department of Communications and Digital Technologies
Style	The Honourable
Appointer	Cyril Ramaphosa
Inaugural holder	Graaff, D.P.DeV[2]
Deputy	Mondli Gungubele
Website	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.^[3] The respective departments did not merge until after the 2019 general election.^[4] After the election Ramaphosa renamed the office as the minister of communications and digital technologies.^[5]

List of ministers

List of ministers responsible for communications, 1994–present

Portfolio	Minister	Party	Term		President
Posts and Telecommunications	Pallo Jordan	ANC	May 1994	March 1996	Mandela
	Jay Naidoo	ANC	March 1996	June 1999
Posts, Telecommunications and Broadcasting	Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri	ANC	June 1999	April 2004	Mbeki
Communications	Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri	ANC	April 2004	May 2009	Mbeki and Motlanthe
	Siphiwe Nyanda	ANC	May 2009[6]	October 2010	Zuma
	Roy Padayachie	ANC	November 2010	October 2011
	Dina Pule	ANC	October 2011[7]	July 2013
	Yunus Carrim	ANC	July 2013	May 2014
	Faith Muthambi	ANC	May 2014	March 2017
	Ayanda Dlodlo	ANC	March 2017	October 2017
	Mmamoloko Kubayi	ANC	October 2017	February 2018
	Nomvula Mokonyane	ANC	February 2018	November 2018	Ramaphosa
Telecommunications and Postal Services	Siyabonga Cwele	ANC	May 2014	November 2018	Zuma and Ramaphosa
Communications and Digital Technologies	Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams	ANC	November 2018	August 2021	Ramaphosa
	Khumbudzo Ntshavheni	ANC	August 2021	March 2023	Ramaphosa
	Mondli Gungubele	ANC	March 2023[8]	June 2024	Ramaphosa
	Solly Malatsi	DA	July 2024[9]	Incumbent	Ramaphosa