Malusi Gigaba
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| Member of the National Assembly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assumed office 14 June 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 23 April 2004 – 15 November 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 2 June 1999 – 19 November 2001 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 7th President of the African National Congress Youth League | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In office March 1996 – August 2004 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deputy | Andrew Dipela Joe Maswanganyi Rubben Mohlaloga | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Lulu Johnson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Fikile Mbalula | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | Knowledge Malusi Nkanyezi Gigaba 30 August 1971 Eshowe, Natal Province South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Political party | African National Congress | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouses | Thabong Nxumalo (div. 2014)Norma Mngoma
(m. 2014; div. 2021) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Durban-Westville | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Knowledge Malusi Nkanyezi Gigaba (born 30 August 1971) is a South African politician who represents the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly. He served as a cabinet minister between 2010 and 2018, with stints as Minister of Home Affairs, Minister of Public Enterprises, and Minister of Finance. He returned to the National Assembly in the May 2024 general election after a hiatus from frontline politics.
Gigaba joined the government of South Africa in April 2004 as Deputy Minister of Home Affairs under President Thabo Mbeki and was promoted to the cabinet by President Jacob Zuma in October 2010. Thereafter he served as Minister of Public Enterprises from November 2010 to May 2014 and Minister of Home Affairs from May 2014 to March 2017, when Zuma controversially appointed him to replace Pravin Gordhan as Minister of Finance. Zuma's successor, President Cyril Ramaphosa, demoted him back to the home affairs portfolio in February 2018. He resigned from the government and National Assembly in November 2018 under sustained public and political pressure, arising from a finding by the High Court and Public Protector that he had lied under oath in a lawsuit brought by the Oppenheimers' Fireblade Aviation.
In 2022, the Zondo Commission recommended that Gigaba should face criminal investigation for allegedly receiving corrupt payments from the Gupta family during his tenure in the cabinet. His critics associate him closely with the project of state capture allegedly pursued by Zuma and the Guptas in that period, accusing him of using his position as public enterprises minister to interfere with the governance of state-owned enterprises. In the home affairs portfolio, a parliamentary inquiry found that Gigaba had improperly granted South African citizenship to members of the Gupta family in a naturalisation process riddled with fraud and other irregularities.
Born in Eshowe, KwaZulu-Natal, Gigaba rose to prominence as three-term president of the ANC Youth League from March 1996 to August 2004. He has been a member of the ANC National Executive Committee since December 2002 and served one term on the party's National Working Committee between 2013 and 2017. He also led the ANC's national election campaign in the 2014 general election.