Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs

The minister of cooperative governance and traditional affairs is the minister in the Cabinet of South Africa who is responsible for the Department of Cooperative Governance and the Department of Traditional Affairs.

South Africa Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
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Incumbent Velenkosini Hlabisa since 2 July 2024
Department of Cooperative Governance Department of Traditional Affairs
Style	The Honourable
Appointer	President of South Africa
Inaugural holder	Sicelo Shiceka
Formation	10 May 2009
Deputy	Deputy Minister of Cooperative Governance Deputy Minister of Traditional Affairs
Salary	R2,211,937[1]
Website	Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs

The office was called the minister of provincial and local government from June 1999 until May 2009, when the minister assumed responsibility for traditional leadership institutions.^[2] Before June 1999, the office was the minister of constitutional development and provincial affairs. In his first cabinet,^[3] President Thabo Mbeki transferred responsibility for the portfolio of constitutional development to the minister of justice and constitutional development, where it remained thereafter.

List of ministers

List of ministers responsible for cooperative governance, 1994–present

Ministry	Minister	Term		Party		President
Constitutional Development and Provincial Affairs	Roelf Meyer	1994	1996	NP		Nelson Mandela
	Valli Moosa	1996	1999	ANC		Nelson Mandela
Provincial and Local Affairs	Sydney Mufamadi	1999	2008	ANC		Thabo Mbeki
	Sicelo Shiceka	2008	2009	ANC		Kgalema Motlanthe
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs	Sicelo Shiceka	2009	2011	ANC		Jacob Zuma
	Richard Baloyi	2011	2013	ANC
	Lech Tsenoli	2013	2014	ANC
	Pravin Gordhan	2014	2015	ANC
	Des van Rooyen	2015	2018	ANC
	Zweli Mkhize	2018	2019	ANC		Cyril Ramaphosa
	Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma	2019	2023	ANC
	Thembi Nkadimeng	2023	2024	ANC
	Velenkosini Hlabisa	2024	–	IFP