Minister of Finance (South Africa)

South Africa
Minister of Finance

Incumbent
Pravin Gordhan

since 14 December 2015
National Treasury
Style The Honourable
Appointer Jacob Zuma
Inaugural holder Henry Charles Hull
Formation 31 May 1910
Deputy Buti Kgwaridi Manamelai
Salary R2,211,937[1]
Website National Treasury
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The Minister of Finance is a minister in the Cabinet of South Africa who is the political head of the National Treasury. The Minister of Finance is responsible for the financial management of government affairs, drawing up the budget, and developing economic policy (in cooperation with the Minister of Economic Development and the Minister of Trade and Industry). The Minister of Finance is also responsible for Statistics South Africa and the South African Revenue Service.

List of Past Ministers

Minister of Finance, 1910-present

Name Portrait Term Party President
(since 1984)
Henry Charles Hull 15 September 1910 1912 SAP Louis Botha
(I) (II)
Jan Smuts 1912 20 October 1915 SAP
Henry Burton
Smuts Cabinet 1923.jpg
20 October 1915 1917 SAP
Thomas Orr 1917 20 March 1920 SAP
Jan Smuts
(takes office after Botha dies)
Henry Burton
Smuts Cabinet 1923.jpg
20 March 1920 19 June 1924 SAP Jan Smuts
(I) (II)
N.C. Havenga 20 June 1924 4 September 1939 NP J.B.M. Hertzog
(I) (II) (III) (IV)
UP
J.F.H. Hofmeyer 5 September 1939 25 May 1948 UP Jan Smuts
(takes office after Hertzog resignation)
Jan Smuts
(III)
N.C. Havenga 26 May 1948 1954 HNP D.F. Malan
(I) (II)
E.H. Louw 1954 1956 HNP
Tom Naudé 1956 15 April 1958 HNP
T.E. Dönges 16 April 1958 1967 NP Strydom
(I)
Hendrik Verwoerd
(takes office after Strydom's death)
Hendrik Verwoerd
(I) (II)
Nico Diederichs 1967 1975 NP
B.J. Vorster
(takes office after Verwoerd's death)
B.J. Vorster
(I) (II) (III)
Owen Horwood 1975 1984 NP
P.W. Botha
(I) (II)
Barend du Plessis 1984 1992 NP
F.W. de Klerk
(I)
Derek Keys 1992 19 September 1994 NP
Nelson Mandela
(Government of National Unity)
Chris Liebenberg 19 September 1994 4 April 1996 None
Trevor Manuel 4 April 1996 10 May 2009 ANC
Thabo Mbeki
(I) (II)
Kgalema Motlanthe
(takes office after Mbeki resigns)
Pravin Gordhan 11 May 2009 25 May 2014 ANC Jacob Zuma
(I) (II)
Nhlanhla Nene 25 May 2014 9 December 2015 ANC
David van Rooyen 9 December 2015 13 December 2015 ANC
Pravin Gordhan 13 December 2015 Incumbent ANC

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