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. Until 1958, the position was titled the minister of native affairs.

Office-holders

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Michiel Daniel Christiaan de Wet Nel Michiel is a Dutch masculine given name equivalent to Michael and a Venetian surname. Given name * Michiel Andrieszoon (died 1684), Dutch pirate * Michiel Bartman (born 1967), Dutch rower * Michiel Borstlap (born 1966), Dutch pianist and comp ...

, 1958–1966 , ''Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, and Bantu Education'' , - ,

Michiel Coenraad Botha Michiel is a Dutch masculine given name equivalent to Michael and a Venetian surname. Given name * Michiel Andrieszoon (died 1684), Dutch pirate * Michiel Bartman (born 1967), Dutch rower * Michiel Borstlap (born 1966), Dutch pianist and comp ...

, 1966–1977 , ''Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, and Bantu Education'' , - , Cornelius Petrus Mulder , January – November 1978 , ''Minister of Plural Relations and Development'' , - ,

Piet Koornhof Pieter G. J. Koornhof, (2 August 1925 – 12 November 2007) was a South African politician. As an apartheid-era National Party cabinet minister, he held various portfolios in the cabinets of B.J. Vorster and P.W. Botha. He was regard ...

, 1978–1984 , ''Minister of Plural Relations and Development''/''Minister of Co-operation and Development'' , - ,

Gerrit Viljoen Gerrit Van Niekerk Viljoen (11 September 1926 – 29 March 2009) was a South African government minister and member of the National Party. He was chair of the Broederbond from 1974 to 1980, Administrator-General of South West Africa from ...

, 1985–1988 , ''Minister of Co-operation and Development'' , - ,

Stoffel van der Merwe Stoffel is a Dutch-language given name and German-language surname derived from a diminutive of a reduced form of Christoffer. Like the related '' Stoffer'' it has thus emerged from the medieval personal name of Greek origin ''Christopher'' with t ...

, 1989–1991 , ''Minister of National Education and Training'' , - , Samuel Johannes de Beer , 1991–1994 , ''Minister of National Education and Training'' Government ministers of South Africa