Samantha Graham

Samantha Graham
Graham in 2024
Deputy Minister of Electricity
Assumed office
30 June 2024
MinisterKgosientsho Ramokgopa
Preceded byNobuhle Nkabane
Shadow Minister of Electricity
In office
21 April 2023 – 14 June 2024
LeaderJohn Steenhuisen
Preceded byOffice established
Shadow Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure
In office
5 December 2020 – 21 April 2023
DeputyMadeleine Hicklin
LeaderJohn Steenhuisen
Preceded byPatricia Kopane
Succeeded byIsaac Seitlholo
Shadow Deputy Minister of Public Works and infrastructure
In office
5 June 2019 – 5 December 2020
LeaderJohn Steenhuisen
Mmusi Maimane
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byMadeleine Hicklin
Member of the National Assembly of South Africa
Assumed office
22 May 2019
ConstituencyEastern Cape
Personal details
Born (1969-05-27) 27 May 1969 (age 55)
NationalitySouth African
Political partyDemocratic Alliance (2007–present)
Spouse(s)
Rodney Maré
(m. 2019)

Nikolas Jankovich (former)
Children2
ResidenceAberdeen, Eastern Cape
EducationRhenish Girls' High School
Alma materUniversity of South Africa (LLB)
OccupationMember of Parliament
ProfessionPolitician

Samantha Jane Graham (born 27 May 1969) is a South African politician from the Eastern Cape who was elected to the National Assembly of South Africa in the 2019 general election and re-elected in the 2024 general election as a member of the Democratic Alliance. Graham has been the Deputy Minister of Electricity since 2024. Graham served as the shadow deputy minister of public works and infrastructure from 2019 to 2020 and as the shadow minister for the portfolio between 2020 and 2023, when she was named shadow minister of electricity. She is a former councillor of the Dr Beyers Naudé Local Municipality.