Department of Communications and Digital Technologies

The Department of Communications and Digital Technologies (formerly the Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services and the Department of Communications) is one of the departments of the South African government. It is responsible for overseeing the South African communications, telecommunications, broadcasting, and postal industries.

The political head of the department is the Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, who is assisted by a deputy minister. the minister is Khumbudzo Ntshavheni and her deputy is Philly Mapulane.

In 2014, then-President Jacob Zuma renamed the original Department of Communications to the Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services, at the same time creating a new Department of Communications with different responsibilities, including propaganda.

In June 2019, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that the two departments would be merged to create the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies.

List of Ministers

Term startedTerm endedMinister surnameMinister name(s)Date of birthDate of deathUnder Prime Minister / PresidentPolitical Party Pre-democratic South Africa19101912GraaffDavid Pieter de Villiers30 March 185913 April 1931Botha, L.South African Party19121912LeucharsGeorge16 April 185810 February 1924Botha, L.South African Party19121915WattThomas18571947Botha, L.South African Party19151919BeckJohannes Hendricus Meiring28 November 185515 May 1919Botha, L.South African Party19191920OrrThomas1874Smuts, J. C.South African Party19201921GraaffJacobus Arnoldus Combrinck4 March 18635 April 1927Smuts, J. C.South African Party19211924WattThomas18571947Smuts, J. C.South African Party19241925BoydellThomas18825 July 1966Hertzog, J. B. M.National Party19251928MadeleyWalter Bayley28 July 187315 May 1947Hertzog, J. B. M.National Party19281929SampsonHenry William12 May 18726 August 1938Hertzog, J. B. M.National Party19291945Clarkson Charles Francis18811959 Hertzog, J. B. M. and Smuts, J. C.National Party and United Party19451950ErasmusFrans Christiaan1896Smuts, J. C. United Party and National Party19501954NaudéJozua Francois15 April 188931 May 1969 Malan, D. F.National Party19541958Serfontein JanStrijdom, J. G.National Party19581968HertzogJohannes Albertus Munnik4 July 18995 November 1982Verwoerd, H. F. and Vorster, B. J.National Party19681970Janse van RensburgMatthys Cornelis Grove12 February 19191970Vorster, B. J.National Party19701976ViljoenMarais2 December 19154 January 2007Vorster, B. J.National Party19761978van der SpuyJohannes Petrus24 November 191213 September 2003Vorster, B. J.National Party19781978SmitHennieBotha, P. W.National Party19781979de KlerkFrederik Willem18 March 1936Botha, P. W.National Party19821984MunnikLourens Albertus Petrus Anderson192512 July 2016Botha, P. W.National Party19841991BartlettGeorge14 March 193125 March 2010de Klerk, F. W.National Party19911994WelgemoedPeter Johannes1943de Klerk, F. W.National Party Post-democratic South Africa19941996JordanZweledinga Pallo22 May 1942Mandela, N. R.African National Congress19961999NaidooJayaseelen20 December 1954Mandela, N. R.ANC19992009CasaburriIvy Florence Matsepe18 September 19376 April 2009Mbeki, T. M. and Motlanthe, K. P.ANC20092010NyandaSiphwe22 May 1950Zuma, J. G.ANC20102011PadayachieRadhakrishna Lutchmana 1 May 19505 May 2002Zuma, J. G.ANC20112013Pule Dinah DeliweZuma, J. G.ANC20132014CarrimYunusZuma, J. G.ANC20142017MuthambiAzwihangwisi Faith Zuma, J. G.ANC20172017DlodloAyanda 22 May 1963Zuma, J. G.ANC20172018Kubayi-NgubaneMmamoloko TryphosaZuma, J. G.ANC20182018CweleSiyabonga Cyprian3 September 1958Ramaphosa, M. C.ANC20182018MokonyaneNomvula20 June 1963Ramaphosa, M. C.ANC20182021Ndabeni-AbrahamsStella Tembisa30 June 1978Ramaphosa, M. C.ANC20212023NtshavheniKhumbudzo 30 January 1977Ramaphosa, M. C.ANC20232024GungubeleMondli1 February 1957Ramaphosa, M. C.ANC2024MalatsiSolly22 December 1985Ramaphosa, M. C.Democratic Alliance

Portfolio organisations Portfolio organisations are those public enterprises (i.e. parastatals) that report to the South African Government via the Ministry of Communications. These are:

Independent Communications Authority of South Africa South African Post Office Sentech .za Domain Name Authority (.ZADNA) National Electronic Media Institute of South Africa Universal Service and Access Agency of South Africa e-Skills InstituteRepublic of South Africa: Department of Telecommunications & Postal Services .

References

External links Department of Communications ZADNA