South Africa Minister of Defence and Military Veterans
Incumbent Angie Motshekga since 30 June 2024
Department of Defence Department of Military Veterans
Style	The Honourable
Appointer	Cyril Ramaphosa
Inaugural holder	Lindiwe Sisulu
Formation	10 May 2009
Deputy	Deputy Minister of Defence and Military Veterans
Salary	R 2,211,937[1]
Website	Department of Defence Department of Military Veterans

The minister of defence and military veterans (formerly the minister of defence) is a minister in the Government of South Africa, who is responsible for overseeing the Department of Defence, the Department of Military Veterans and the South African National Defence Force.

Name		Portrait	Term		Party	President (since 1984)
	Jan Smuts		15 September 1910	27 August 1919	SAP		Louis Botha (I) (II)
	Hendrik Mentz		28 August 1919	19 June 1924	SAP
							Jan Smuts (takes office after Botha dies)
							Jan Smuts (I) (II)
	Frederic Creswell		20 June 1924	17 May 1933	LP		J.B.M. Hertzog (I) (II)
	Oswald Pirow		18 May 1933	4 September 1939	NP
					UP		J.B.M. Hertzog (III) (IV)
	Jan Smuts		5 September 1939	26 May 1948	UP
							Jan Smuts (takes office after Hertzog resignation)
							Jan Smuts (III)
	F.C. Erasmus		26 May 1948	12 December 1959	HNP		D.F. Malan (I) (II)
					NP		Strydom (I)
	J.J. Fouché		12 December 1959	30 March 1966	NP
							Hendrik Verwoerd (takes office after Strydom's death)
							Hendrik Verwoerd (I) (II)
	P.W. Botha		30 March 1966	28 April 1981	NP
							B.J. Vorster (takes office after Verwoerd's death)
							B.J. Vorster (I) (II) (III)
	Magnus Malan		29 April 1981	1991	NP		P.W. Botha (I) (II)
							F.W. de Klerk (I)
	Roelf Meyer		1991	1992	NP
	Gene Louw		1992	1993	NP
	Kobie Coetsee		1993	9 May 1994	NP
	Joe Modise		10 May 1994	25 June 1999	ANC		Nelson Mandela (Government of National Unity)
	Mosiuoa Lekota		24 June 1999	19 September 2008	ANC		Thabo Mbeki (I) (II)
	Charles Nqakula		20 September 2008	21 April 2009	ANC		Kgalema Motlanthe (takes office after Mbeki resigns)
	Lindiwe Sisulu		22 April 2009	12 June 2012	ANC		Jacob Zuma (I) (II)
	Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula		12 June 2012	2013	ANC

Name		Portrait	Term		Party	President
	Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula		2013	2021	ANC		Jacob Zuma (I) (II) Cyril Ramaphosa (I) (II)
	Thandi Modise		2021	19 June 2024	ANC		Cyril Ramaphosa (II shuffled)
	Angie Motshekga		30 June 2024	incumbent	ANC		Cyril Ramaphosa (III shuffled)