List of South African Ministers of Justice
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This List of South African Ministers of Justice contains all persons to hold that position since the founding of the Union of South Africa up to the current time (2006):
- 1910 - 1912, J.B.M. Hertzog, SAP
- 1912 - 24 July 1913, Jacobus Wilhelmus Sauer, SAP
- September 1913 - 1924, Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet, SAP
- 1924 - 1929, Tielman Johannes de Villiers Roos, NP
- 1929 - March 1933, Oswald Pirow, NP
- March 1933 - September 1939, Jan Smuts, SAP (UP from 5 December 1934 )
- September 1939 - 1945, Colin Fraser Steyn, UP
- 1945 - June 1948, Harry Gordon Lawrence, UP
- June 1948 - 1959, Charles Robberts Swart, NP
- 1959 - August 1961, Frans Erasmus, NP
- August 1961 - 1966, B.J. Vorster, NP
- 1966 - 1974, Petrus Cornelius Pelser, NP
- 1974 - 1979, Jimmy Kruger, NP
- 1979 - 1980, Alwyn Schlebusch, NP
- 1980 - 11 May 1994, Kobie Coetsee, NP
- 11 May 1994 - 17 June 1999, Dullah Omar, ANC
- 17 June 1999 - 28 April 2004, Penuell Maduna, ANC
- 28 April 2004 - present, Brigitte Mabandla, ANC (b. 1948)
