Dipuo Letsatsi-Duba | |
|---|---|
| Member of the National Assembly | |
| In office 21 May 2014 – 5 June 2019 | |
| Minister of State Security | |
| In office 26 February 2018 – 29 May 2019 | |
| President | Cyril Ramaphosa |
| Deputy | Ellen Molekane |
| Preceded by | Bongani Bongo |
| Succeeded by | Ayanda Dlodlo |
| Deputy Minister of Public Service and Administration | |
| In office 31 March 2017 – 26 February 2018 | |
| President | Jacob Zuma |
| Minister | Faith Muthambi |
| Preceded by | Gratitude Magwanishe |
| Succeeded by | Chana Pilane-Majake |
| Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Public Enterprises | |
| In office 25 June 2014 – 31 March 2017 | |
| Speaker | Baleka Mbete |
| Preceded by | Peter Maluleka |
| Succeeded by | Lungi Gcabashe |
| Member of the Limpopo Provincial Legislature | |
| In office 6 May 2009 – 6 May 2014 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Dipuo Bertha Letsatsi 25 September 1965 Katlehong, Transvaal South Africa |
| Political party | African National Congress |
| Spouse |
Mose Jacob Duba (died 2008) |
Dipuo Bertha Letsatsi-Duba (born 25 September 1965) is a South African politician who is currently serving as South African Ambassador to Turkey. She served as Minister of State Security in the first cabinet of President Cyril Ramaphosa from February 2018 to May 2019. Before that, she was Deputy Minister of Public Service and Administration from March 2017 to February 2018.
A member of the African National Congress (ANC), Letsatsi-Duba previously served in the Limpopo Provincial Legislature from 2009 to 2014, holding three different portfolios in the Limpopo Executive Council under Premiers Cassel Mathale and Stan Mathabatha. After that, from 2014 to 2019, she served in the National Assembly, where she was chairperson of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Public Enterprises until President Jacob Zuma appointed her as a deputy minister in 2017. She resigned from the National Assembly in early June 2019 after failing to gain an appointment to Ramaphosa's second-term cabinet.
Born in Gauteng, Letsatsi-Duba entered politics during apartheid as a recruit of Umkhonto we Sizwe in exile. She has been a member of the ANC National Executive Committee since December 2012.