Siyabonga Cwele information

His Excellency
Siyabonga Cwele
His Excellency Siyabonga Cwele
	Cwele in September 2018
South African Ambassador to China
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 23 December 2020
President	Cyril Ramaphosa
Preceded by	Dolana Msimang
Minister of Home Affairs
	In office; 22 November 2018 – 29 May 2019
President	Cyril Ramaphosa
Deputy	Fatima Chohan
Preceded by	Malusi Gigaba
Succeeded by	Aaron Motsoaledi
President
Prior cabinet offices; 2008–2018
Minister of Telecommunications and Postal Services
	In office; 25 May 2014 – 22 November 2018
President	Jacob Zuma; Cyril Ramaphosa
Deputy	Hlengiwe Mkhize; Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Minister of State Security
	In office; 11 May 2009 – 25 May 2014
President	Jacob Zuma
Preceded by	Himself (for Intelligence)
Succeeded by	David Mahlobo
Minister of Intelligence Services
	In office; 25 September 2008 – 10 May 2009
President	Kgalema Motlanthe
Preceded by	Ronnie Kasrils
Succeeded by	Himself (for State Security)
Constituency
Legislative offices; 1994–2019
Member of the National Assembly
	In office; 14 June 1999 – 3 June 2019
Constituency	KwaZulu-Natal (1999–2009)
Permanent Delegate to the National Council of Provinces
Assembly Member; for KwaZulu-Natal
	In office; 9 May 1994 – June 1999
Personal details
Born	Siyabonga Cyprian Cwele; 3 September 1958 (age 65)
Citizenship	South Africa
Political party	African National Congress
Spouse	Sheryl Cwele (m. 1985; div. 2011)
Alma mater	University of KwaZulu-Natal (MBChB); Stellenbosch University (MPhil)

Siyabonga Cyprian Cwele (born 3 September 1958) is a South African politician who served in the cabinet of South Africa from September 2008 to May 2019, most recently as the Minister of Home Affairs between 2018 and 2019. He was appointed as the South African Ambassador to China in December 2020. He is a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and represented the party in Parliament from 1994 to 2019.

A medical doctor by training, Cwele joined the ANC underground during apartheid in 1984. In the 1994 general election, he was elected to the KwaZulu-Natal delegation of the National Council of Provinces, where he served for a single term before joining the National Assembly. He chaired Parliament's Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence between 2004 and 2008.

In September 2008, he was appointed to the cabinet of President Kgalema Motlanthe, who named him as Minister of Intelligence. He remained in that office until May 2014, though President Jacob Zuma renamed it as the Minister of State Security in May 2009. From May 2014 to November 2018, he was the Minister of Telecommunications and Postal Services under Zuma and his successor, Cyril Ramaphosa, and he went on to serve a brief stint as Ramaphosa's Minister of Home Affairs from November 2018 to May 2019. After the 2019 general election, he was excluded from Ramaphosa's second cabinet and resigned from his legislative seat.

Cwele was a member of the ANC National Executive Committee from December 2012 to December 2022. Before that, he served in the Provincial Executive Committee in KwaZulu-Natal between 1990 and 2012.

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