| South Africa Minister of Water and Sanitation | |
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| Department of Water and Sanitation | |
| Style | The Honourable |
| Appointer | President of South Africa |
| Inaugural holder | Ernest George Jansen |
| Formation | 1928 |
| Deputy | David Mahlobo (ANC) Sello Seitlholo (DA) |
| Website | Department of Water and Sanitation |
The Minister of Water and Sanitation is a minister in the Cabinet of South Africa. The minister has political responsibility for the Department of Water and Sanitation. The office in its current form was re-established in August 2021; it formerly existed between May 2014 and May 2019.
During other periods, the water affairs portfolio was conjoined with other portfolios, including under the Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry from 1994 to 2009, under the Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs from 2009 to 2014, and, most recently, under the Minister of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation from 2019 to 2021.