Zizi Kodwa

Ncediso Goodenough "Zizi" Kodwa (born 19 January 1970) is a South African politician and communications strategist who served as the Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture from March 2023 until his resignation in June 2024. Before that, he was the Deputy Minister of State Security from 2019 to 2023. He was formerly the national spokesperson of the African National Congress (ANC) from 2014 to 2018.

Formerly a student activist in Cape Town, Kodwa rose to prominence as the national spokesperson of the ANC Youth League. He held that office during the tenure of league president Fikile Mbalula, and he, like Mbalula, was an outspoken supporter of Jacob Zuma. After Zuma was elected as ANC president in December 2007, Kodwa was the spokesman in Zuma's party office; from 2010 to 2012, he was also Zuma's special advisor on communications in the Presidency of South Africa. After that, for most of Zuma's second term as president, Kodwa was the ANC's national spokesperson from May 2014 to February 2018.

From 2018 to 2019, he was briefly the head of the ANC presidential office under Zuma's successor, President Cyril Ramaphosa. He joined the National Assembly in the 2019 general election – following an earlier, week-long tenure in the assembly in May 2014 – and was appointed by Ramaphosa to as Deputy Minister of State Security. He retained the state security position after it was restructured and renamed as Deputy Minister in the Presidency for State Security in 2021, and he was appointed to a cabinet position in a reshuffle in March 2023.

In addition to his various communications posts at Luthuli House, Kodwa has been a member of the ANC National Executive Committee since December 2012.